The wide receiver was in the balloon with a female friend when the accident occurred, according to Lyons.

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However, the night before the shooting, Brynn Hartman dined with a female friend at a nearby restaurant, Buca di Beppo.

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He says that he had asked Mr Francis to cover for him because he was dining with a female friend, Andrina Colquhoun.

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One was from a female friend who said a suspect called her about five hours after Holloway was last seen leaving an Oranjestad, Aruba, nightclub with Van der Sloot and the Kalpoes.

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She described how she had been spotting people across London using Lumia phones, from a woman in a restaurant who was showing a recently-acquired Lumia 800 to her fellow diners, to a female friend who, after playing with the same device at a bar, found herself approached by two different men all wanting to know more about her phone.

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Whenever a younger female friend or associate sought my advice - I told them the best thing they can do for themselves AND their future children - was to develop a career.

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Dr Odent said a female relation or friend - particularly somebody who had already had children - would provide better support because they had already been through the process themselves.

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Now if you're a female soldier or a friend, a family member of one, what do you think about women in combat?

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And when Manisha and a friend pose for the BBC in female clothes on the building's rooftop, builders next door scarcely bat an eyelid.

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One female friend has been On-Offing with a guy for over two years.

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