At the age of eighty, she revealed herself to the world as "Alice" when she sold her original version of "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland"; the version Charles Dodgson had written down, just as she had asked him to, so long ago.
Now an American citizen and known as Dina Babbitt, she has asked Congress for help in her campaign to have the portraits restored to her by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.
Next year I'm going to be working with Jenny Sealey of [the theatre company for the disabled] Graeae, but I don't know if she has asked me as an able-bodied performer or as a sort of halfway house… Do you feel more British, Greek or American?
"America's first lady will be holding a huge celebrity-packed party for her birthday at the White House next year and, as she adores Adele and Beyonce, she has asked them both to sing," an unnamed source told The Daily Mail.
"Not a thing," Reagan answers merrily, as if she had asked him what he knew about New Zealand, or modern dance.
"Well, would you like to meet for a drink?" Zora asked finally, as if she had asked it many times before, her tone a mingling of weariness and the cheery pseudo-professionalism of someone in the dully familiar position of being single and dating.
Mr. Naeem said that a police officer had tried to lead Farkhunda away, but that, mindful of Afghan custom as well as strict Islamic teachings, she had asked the officer to bring a policewoman.
Her scent was as pungent as it had been when she had asked for directions.
During her first hearing in Murmansk, her voice was choked with emotion as she recalled how she had asked for doctors to attend to her stomach pains but been ignored.
She also recalled how, as a schoolgirl in 1947, she had asked for Greene's novel The Heart of the Matter "for Christmas.
