Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sudden, it was senior year all over again. His trip down to Baltimore to get surgery, my pretend excuse of going there too--"Really, I'm visiting Hopkins and Georgetown." My father lying in bed, looking pretty good for someone being invaded by tubes and catheters, my nervous mother, all the shrimp and barbecue we ate down by the waterfront when my father was hungry again. I had thought that it was all over. The doctor had worked his magic on my surgeon-father so unaccustomed to playing the victim on the operating table rather than the needle-and-knife...
...sudden, it was senior year all over again. His trip down to Baltimore to get surgery, my pretend excuse for going there too--"Really, I'm visiting Hopkins and Georgetown." My father lying in bed, looking pretty good for someone being invaded by tubes and catheters, my nervous mother, all the shrimp and barbecue we ate down by the waterfront when my father was hungry again. I had thought that it was all over. The doctor had worked his magic on my surgeon-father so unaccustomed to playing the victim on the operating table rather than the needle-and-knife...
...Hmmm. Well, why don't you pretend that you're introducing a video from Neil Diamond," She offers...
...writer, you can pretend you are any gender, any sexuality", Tan said...
...None of these things happen in a vacuum," he said. "Don't pretend divestment will have no effect whatsoever on Harvard's endowment...