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“I remember Oprah once telling me that when she first began exercising, she’d be on the stair-stepping machine at the gym, huffing and puffing at the lowest possible intensity level, then look to her right and see the woman on the next stair-stepper barely breaking a sweat, her intensity level all the way up to the top.”
“To many Depression-era moviegoers, the wolf symbolized hard times, and the piglets’ triumphant defiance of the huffing and puffing was taken as an expression of resolute optimism, similar to “Happy Days Are Here Again.””
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“Standing on the front stoop was Willa Hansen, huffing and puffing in her workout clothes.”
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