Along with Michael Williams and Renee's mother Sandra Patterson, they all laughed and hugged.

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"When I told my friends I was going to become a stonemason in Pennsylvania, they all laughed, " he says.

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Even by December of 1988, when she told her mother, Ruth, and her sisters and friends that she thought she was probably in her eighth month, they all laughed at her, found it hard to believe she was that far along, teased her mercilessly about her size or, more precisely, about her lack of size.

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After all, they laughed at him when he wanted to lay high-speed broadband cable across the ocean floor.

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Of course, they also laughed at all the people before the Wright brothers, the ones who jumped off cliffs frantically waving their wooden wings or clutching their propeller beanies.

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Did anyone at Apple try scrolling on the Nexus 7, because all the UI furniture they laughed at scrolls away as well.

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All they want is for people to come out saying that they laughed and they cried.

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