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Each story is heart-breaking for many reasons, not the least of which is, some of that heart-break might have been mitigated if the person had told others what their wishes were as to how their body was to be treated as they were dying.
Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs: God Will Not Desert Us: Difficult End Of Life Conversations Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs 2011
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And thus the heart-break that arrived on his doorstep with the fact of Jelly's death a few months ago.
Wendy Diamond: In Wendy's Doghouse, Jersey Shore's Vinny Guadagnino and His Menagerie Wendy Diamond 2012
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And thus the heart-break that arrived on his doorstep with the fact of Jelly's death a few months ago.
Wendy Diamond: In Wendy's Doghouse, Jersey Shore's Vinny Guadagnino and His Menagerie Wendy Diamond 2012
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A story of passionate love and heart-break, Twilight, and newly released New Moon, are richly emotional.
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Each story is heart-breaking for many reasons, not the least of which is, some of that heart-break might have been mitigated if the person had told others what their wishes were as to how their body was to be treated as they were dying.
Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs: God Will Not Desert Us: Difficult End Of Life Conversations Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs 2011
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At any rate, how could you top the heart-break of seeing Juliet striving to fulfill the hopes of the Lostaways by smashing Jughead's basic bomb at the very end - and then have the end title be seen inverted on a white screen?
THE 2009 TOOBITS AWARDS (PART EIGHT) Toby O'B 2010
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Cambridge student Plath rocked up on the back of a moped with her Paris-based boyfriend (and, later that year, cause of heart-break), Richard Sassoon – small dark and handsome, and distantly related to Siegfried Sassoon.
Worth waiting for 2009
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Cambridge student Plath rocked up on the back of a moped with her Paris-based boyfriend (and, later that year, cause of heart-break), Richard Sassoon – small dark and handsome, and distantly related to Siegfried Sassoon.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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Cambridge student Plath rocked up on the back of a moped with her Paris-based boyfriend (and, later that year, cause of heart-break), Richard Sassoon – small dark and handsome, and distantly related to Siegfried Sassoon.
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It's been five years of heart-break for the Cuban family on both sides of the Florida Straits.
Sarah Stephens: News Alert: Last Remnant of Cold War Policy (Finally) Takes a Tumble 2009
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