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Even before the night’s performances began, attendees were clinking glasses and giving lingering hugs — the kind befitting the last day of summer camp.

From Los Angeles Times

Austen began writing as a child, and her “juvenilia,” reports Romney, “show a delight in parody,” a characteristic that would inform her later work.

From Los Angeles Times

After winning a Northern Music Award at the beginning of the year for Best Newcomer and then supporting Coldplay, Oraka said the past two years had been his "best years musically".

From BBC

I cannot even begin to imagine what he must be going through.

From BBC

“We take decorating for the holidays very seriously around here,” Scott said at the beginning of the clip, adding that he “only trusts” Glitterville.

From MarketWatch