But Michala explained that she'd just left hospital, and couldn't get to the shop until the following Tuesday.

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British journalists in particular, who knew that she embodied just about everything the British left loves to hate about the American right.

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Never mind that when she made the call she had just left her former employer, formed her own company, and was now selling research on municipal bonds.

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She's 58, and she's got just over 100, 000 dollars in retirement money that she moved around after she left work.

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Finally, she was able to call him to say she was safe and that her group had left the finish line just minutes before the blast to walk to a cafe for lunch.

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When asked why Mrs Richards was not in a splint with her legs straight as instructed in her medical notes, the nurse said that was the position she had been left in by the ambulance staff who had just transferred her from the Royal Haslar Hospital in Gosport.

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She noticed that whenever patients left the hospital, leftover medications like eye drops or inhalers were just thrown away.

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"They don't want to be talked to, they don't want you telling them anything, they just want to be left alone and that's what I do, " she told CNN.

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"For me, it's especially tragic when they are so young and still have so much left to give in life and to experience in life that it just seems unfair, " she said.

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Sometimes adults were uncomfortable with Lisette because they thought she was smirking, but it was just the skin around her left eye, the eye socket that had been shattered and repaired, and the frozen look of that part of her face because some of the nerve muscles were dead.

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