'' james wanted ned to exercise his stock options and keep the stock , did n't he ? that way , ned 's proxy is worth more and james does n't have to buy as many shares in the open market . '' '' if you know so much , why are you asking me ? '' oops , i did n't want to aggravate him . in reality , ned had exercised his options and immediately sold the stock , so something must have come between him and

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julia helps with the dishes while charles takes the kids out back for some hide-and-seek . through the window box filled with mother 's herbs , i can see my grown daughter hiding on the little hill behind the pine tree i gave mom when i was ten . it was for the table top at christmas and now stands over 50 feet tall . sometimes i look at my girls like i do that

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beyond the circles of firelight a large number of plains people had gathered ; druidic festivals were always popular , especially when things went wrong . rincewind stared at them . ' what 's going on ? ' ' oh , well , ' said twoflower enthusiastically , ' apparently there 's this ceremony dating back for thousands of years to celebrate the , um , rebirth of the moon , or possibly the sun . no , i 'm pretty certain it 's the

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never once had there been a thought originating in his mind that he should check out such a place , and his total knowledge of these kinds of places was derived from movie scenes set in dance clubs . he could n't understand the appeal of immersing oneself in an environment where the music was so loud it was impossible to talk , and the crowd so thick it was impossible to walk . not to mention the expense of even entering the building coupled with the cost of

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