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In a picturesque town on the US-Canada border, workers under dark clouds were building a new entrance for Canadians into a library to replace one that had long symbolized bilateral closeness.

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Another, less grand perhaps, is the closeness of a community like Fairfax, where people volunteer their time to keep their facility open, while serial fraudsters are indicted for pillaging hospitals and overbilling the government.

While sailing, the participants, who include Muslims, Orthodox Christians, Catholics and those without religion, help with chores such as cooking, cleaning and night shifts, providing a feeling of closeness.

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Agnes’ mother never bonded with her daughter and showed her little attention except to object to her daughter’s clear intelligence and closeness with her nursemaid.

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They quantified change in terms of quantum fidelity, which is a measure of the closeness between quantum states.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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