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Fueling our mass mourning’s ache is a lack of knowing who will ignite the next blaze like the one D’Angelo sparked, forging the sensual and the spiritual, with passion’s hand clasping its mate in prayer.

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Faith also indicated she had been mates with Jonathan Ross - who is also a traitor - before the show.

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They raise it to ward off rivals and, during mating, use it to grip females by the pectoral fin, keeping the pair together in the water.

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Then again, my mother never attempted to feed me, as my mate puts it, bowls of “yellow ooze with pink misery circles in it.”

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He pointed out that the officers did not ask any further questions about the Bentley after Mr Lennon told them it belonged to "a mate" and said his client travelled to Benidorm regularly.

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

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