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Girls were raised to, as adults, act more like men, but men are behaving as they've always been-and so, at present, America is undergoing a sexistentialist crisis of Woody Allen sized proportions.

Emily Bracken: Romantic Comedies Are Dying Because Romance Is Dead Emily Bracken 2011

This moving opus leaves the reader mourning for the Spain that might have been-and the England that maybe never was.

Winter In Madrid: Summary and book reviews of Winter In Madrid by C.J. Sansom. 2008

God, what an idiot I'd been-and that hitch Candy would be bedding one of the stokers on the Far West, no doubt.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

All these things it has been-and yet one thing more.

Eisenhower "I Shall Go To Korea " Speech 2008

But the border was porous-always had been-and Laila knew that thousands of Afghans were still crossing into Pakistan either with bribes or by proving humanitarian grounds - and there were always smugglers who could be hired.

A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

I would have sworn up and down, when I was a kid, that I'd never turn into the person my mother had been-and maybe I wouldn't have, if I hadn't missed Delia quite so much.

Vanishing Acts Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2005

Soon, though, we were on another street-Ploughman's Bush, it must have been-and before long we were on Broadway, heading south toward Manhattan.

The Burglar On The Prowl Block, Lawrence 2004

Alberich could not help but notice some gaps, where tents had been-and felt a stab in his heart.

Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

So now there was a neat cemetery with rows of wooden markers out there where the churned-up ground had been-and a pit full of ashes where everything that wasn't Valdemaran had been disposed of.

Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

So now there was a neat cemetery with rows of wooden markers out there where the churned-up ground had been-and a pit full of ashes where everything that wasn't Valdemaran had been disposed of.

Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002