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...that everyone would stop talking and look at me until I left, and the worst is a laundry list of misadventures that I can only imagine. I spent a lot of time and I asked a lot of people, sometimes very brazenly. I had some immense strokes of luck - I met some key people for whom it probably wasn't a very good idea to take me in. It can be an impenetrable world. I read most of the moonshine literature available, and I've only found one other journalist who has been taken into an operating still site...
...sister and 24-year-old nephew are out of luck. But there's still hope for her 13-year-old niece. Burnet grabs one of the last remaining pairs in the youth section and stops a 12-year-old girl who is shopping with her mother. "Do you mind trying these on?" she asks, hoping to discern whether the gloves could fit the hands of her niece. The girl slips on the mitts, looks at her hand and wiggles her fingers. "They're too tight," she says. Game over. Burnet says she'll keep searching...
...learned that music and medicine, at its core, are intrinsically connected in the sense that both serve as therapeutic treatments–one for the soul, the other for the body. I’ve learned that, with the right guidance, time management, and a bit of luck, it is indeed possible to become a doctor by day, violinist by night. As Yogi Berra said, “If you come to a fork in the road, take...
...luck for Brown that the latest open book has proved the most incendiary, sparking a conflagration of claims, counterclaims and fresh allegations. "I have never hit anybody in my life," Brown insisted in a Feb. 20 interview with Channel 4 News, broadcast on the eve of serialization of Rawnsley's The End of the Party in a Sunday newspaper. (Watch a Q&A with Gordon Brown...
...stroke of luck didn’t hurt either, as the senior’s intended pass on the power play bounced into the cage for her first tally of the afternoon...