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Hart doesn’t respect, hence can’t acknowledge, the human yearning to view the past through a beautiful amber lens.

Yet the boy’s yearning for family outweighs his sordid circumstances.

But its mistakes began when they started to yearn for a role in pop culture, a space their existing audience doesn’t understand and often actively hates.

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“But they are nothing more than hopes as of now. We yearn to see him in person.”

It did not sound yearning or hopeful, like previous versions I’d heard.

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

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