Word: heartbreakingly
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...Heartbreak Hill is so tough because it comes at the worst possible time...
...Just as most runners are smacking into "the Wall"--the point at which one's legs become disobedient slinkies--legendary Heartbreak Hill looms in the distance. Bunched around the 20-mile mark, this mountain range is not just a single hill but a series of hills, the last of which vaguely resembles Mt. McKinley...
Actually, people have told me that Heartbreak Hill is not that big, unless you're under the influence of 20 miles. Maybe, maybe not. All I know is that the hills sure seemed big as I approached them...
...pain that I had felt when I tried to scale Heartbreak Hill. It was not the pain that I had felt when I was running past Boston College, with the Prudential Center only a blip on the horizon...
Ralph: Reagan was an entertainer when he sold us all those products, Wanda. If Gerry were an actress, a tennis star or a famous guitar banger, no one would mind if she put her prestige behind miracle toilet-bowl cleaners and remedies for the heartbreak of psoriasis--at least if she dropped all the piety about women's choices and just rolled up her sleeves and sold the stuff...