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gone fishing

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“You’d never gone fishing until you got here. Look at you now,” said Lily.

On Christmas Eve in 2002, Laci Peterson, a 27-year-old substitute teacher who was pregnant with the couple’s first child, was reported missing from the home she and Mr. Peterson shared in Modesto, Calif. In April 2003, her body and the fetus washed ashore in San Francisco Bay, close to where Mr. Peterson, who was 30 at the time, had told the police he had gone fishing the day she went missing.

In his statement, Mr Whitehouse, who currently stars in BBC Two series Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, said: "It is called a private life for a reason."

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In the 1880s, then-President Grover Cleveland was said to have gone fishing — and “people were appalled,” said Matthew Dennis, an emeritus history professor at the University of Oregon.

Turns out, they had gone fishing; when they got back, they devoured the biscuits while they cleaned their catches, then invited me to the most delicious ceviche dinner at sunset.

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

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