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• ““Alan,” said my aunt, and she looked at me with love, “the Flatleys”—she was referring to the next-door neighbors—“asked us if we were putting wine bottles in their recycling bin.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wake Up, Sir!

• “Whether I was showing off for my Aunt Pat or out-dancing every kid who challenged me at my next-door neighbor's house, there was a constant beat in my head.”

  The Huffington Post: Jeffrey Page: Dance Will Save the World

• “I'm never puffed up with pride or think I'm better than the next-door neighbor.”

  Archive: Michael in the mirror

• “I led the campaign in Englewood to push the tyrant out of our neighborhood when he sought to live in the Libyan-owned compound that is my immediate next-door neighbor and whose tax-exemption I have fought for three years.”

  The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Why I Want to Be the Values-Voice in Congress

• “Most of the nearly 8,000 locals, however, still tend to think of this region as the nature-based Redwood Empire, in contrast to the commercial wine country of next-door Napa County.”

  The Huffington Post: Shepherd Bliss: Occupy Strikes Chord In Small Town Of Sebastopol

• “The mosquitoes showed up before dusk fell, drawn to our sugar drinks and our sweat, and the next-door neighbor's underground pool.”

  Fictionaut: A Spark and a Flash

• “About a month ago, Hance's next-door neighbor Gudrun "Gerdie" Johnson had asked Hance to clean up the property, which included a broken-down car on blocks.”

  USA Today: Ohio gunman was in property dispute, neighbors say

• “Among them was the famous San Francisco performance artist and sex educator Annie Sprinkle, who, with her wife, the artist Beth Stephens, are German's next-door neighbors.”

  The Huffington Post: Stardust: Homes, Not Tents, For Occupy Bernal

• “NASA's six-wheeled, one-armed wonder, Curiosity, will reach Mars next summer and use its jackhammer drill, rock-zapping laser machine and other devices to search for evidence that Earth's next-door neighbor might once have been home to the teeniest forms of life.”

  The Huffington Post: NASA Mars Curiosity Launch: Huge Rover On Its Way To Mars

• “My next-door neighbor, the ice cream vendor, my cousin during Thanksgiving family visits, my after-school counselor.”

  The Huffington Post: Diana Nyad: Penn State Shocker. Really?

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