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With half of all marriages ending in divorce, and cardiovascular disease affecting one in three American women, our hearts are under siege emotionally and physically, making Valentine's Day feel bitter-sweet, or just plain bitter.
Alex Jamieson: Healing Hearts With Chia and Chocolate Alex Jamieson 2012
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With half of all marriages ending in divorce, and cardiovascular disease affecting one in three American women, our hearts are under siege emotionally and physically, making Valentine's Day feel bitter-sweet, or just plain bitter.
Alex Jamieson: Healing Hearts With Chia and Chocolate Alex Jamieson 2012
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Neither side can realize what they want unless they accept this basic bitter-sweet reality.
Alon Ben-Meir: Reconciling Israel's Security With Palestinian Statehood Alon Ben-Meir 2010
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With half of all marriages ending in divorce, and cardiovascular disease affecting one in three American women, our hearts are under siege emotionally and physically, making Valentine's Day feel bitter-sweet, or just plain bitter.
Alex Jamieson: Healing Hearts With Chia and Chocolate Alex Jamieson 2012
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To end on a bitter-sweet note, consider the iPhone PMS SOS Betty Crocker app, which sought to cure pre-menstrual tension through cocoa-laden product vouchers.
Belinda Parmar: The Technological Gender Divide Belinda Parmar 2011
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Neither side can realize what they want unless they accept this basic bitter-sweet reality.
Alon Ben-Meir: Reconciling Israel's Security With Palestinian Statehood Alon Ben-Meir 2010
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Neither side can realize what they want unless they accept this basic bitter-sweet reality.
Alon Ben-Meir: Reconciling Israel's Security With Palestinian Statehood Alon Ben-Meir 2010
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I do understand that you want us to know that the characters are elderly, but that ‘visual’ lasted throughout the piece – for me, anyway – and curdled the otherwise excellent bitter-sweet atmosphere you worked so hard to build. scar
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Neither side can realize what they want unless they accept this basic bitter-sweet reality.
Alon Ben-Meir: Reconciling Israel's Security With Palestinian Statehood Alon Ben-Meir 2010
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To end on a bitter-sweet note, consider the iPhone PMS SOS Betty Crocker app, which sought to cure pre-menstrual tension through cocoa-laden product vouchers.
Belinda Parmar: The Technological Gender Divide Belinda Parmar 2011
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