Just as the recording sings out a store's farewell, over and over, so too does New York City re-create itself, over and over.
On one of my last days, I stood on our front balcony, running my fingertips farewell over the leaves of the bitter orange tree, whose upper branches reached our second-story house.
We studied the large-scale distribution of intertidal macrozoobenthos over approximately 10,000 ha of sandflat on Farewell Spit, New Zealand.
Those on board, destined for destruction, relayed their final words of love and farewells over digital airwaves - and thereby into indelible technological posterity.
The plane and jet made a farewell flight over Cape Canaveral before swooping over the nation's capital.
On 30 July 1982, his last day in court, Denning prepared four judgments and, dressed in his official robes and in the company of the Lord Chief Justice, delivered his farewell speech to over 300 lawyers crowded into the court.
Dame Nellie Melba's farewell extended over seven years.
Another Cumbrian hero, Rob Purdham, will play his last game for Harlequins on Saturday against St Helens at the Stoop, and there are many other players who will be making farewell appearances over the next few weeks.
There, he headed to Mr. Kerry's campaign headquarters for an emotional farewell where, over beer and tears, he urged Kerry aides who were threatening to follow Mr. Jordan out the door to stay on and help Mr. Kerry win the White House.
On the other hand, I'd never really thought about how many pets the average human gets through in a life until I read "Animals," in which George, an unemployed father, catalogs the various pets he's bid farewell to over the years: Pete the finch; Breezy the rabbit; Goofy the dog, whose successor, Simba, met with a bad end as George reversed out of the drive one morning.
There are Facebook fan pages, "Save the McRib" petitions, and there have been several "McRib Farewell Tours" over the past decade.
