Word: dearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing to you with a very urgent request, one which is very near and dear to my heart as an architectural historian and as a lover of beautiful things--the preservation of the Great Hall of the Freshman Union. I am very upset by the proposed destruction of this splendid space and would like to present for your consideration a rationale for why it is essential to preserve and restore the Hall to its original splendor...
Anthea was a close friend and a roommate and Chinua was also a dear friend. I cannot doubt the goodness I saw in Chinua. During his junior year, he often had to go out to print papers at a commercial location. I asked him once if his computer was giving him problems. His computer was fine, he said, but he had shipped it to his little sister in California so that she could get a head start with computers that he had not had. His senior year, I also remember him working an incredible number of hours each week...
Thanks for the memories, dear reader. It's been a fun ride...
What follows is not supposed to be funny, but sure enough, the boyfriend whom Caroline jilted with a Dear John note when she fled town a quarter-century ago is still single, not too thick around the waist, and still carries the torch. He's also, natch, the prosecuting attorney who intends to jug Caroline's niece--who, it develops, is not really her niece, but ... Tension mounts. So do the old lovers. But the tale's prevailing oddity is that Caroline is not convincingly female. Not that she should cry or lose earrings, but as things...
...Simpson's onetime girlfriend, model Paula Barbieri, gave her deposition in the civil suit filed against the ex-football hero by the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. According to an attorney present, Barbieri testified that she left Simpson a "Dear John" phone message on the morning of the murders...