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Her on again off again dysfunctional boyfriend, Sir Robert Dudley, gave her a small watch encased in a bracelet, said to be the first wristwatch in England.
To Knit or Not to Knit
Elvira Woodruff
I think the most important decision is saying, “I’m gonna enjoy this moment right now. It’s the only thing I have that’s real. And life’s too short to suffer.” And if I just keep doing that with each moment, things unfold in a way that’s, as you know, beyond magnificent. And it’s easy to teach, harder to apply, but it’s a discipline. And if you do it, and you start measuring it moment to moment, you will get addicted. It will be a positive addiction because the liberation is beyond what you can describe with words. You have to experience it.
The Wisdom of Sundays
Oprah Winfrey
I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar—you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving
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