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And I would be picking up after them with a box of Kleenex.
If I had titled this column "Why Headlines Matter," I would be picking the broadest possible option.
And here's where I thought the carefulness would come in: I would be picking and maybe eating something that would either taste incredibly good or poison me.
Instead of working on a book that I know in my heart will someday be published (just got an agent!) and maybe even made into a movie, fulfilling my ultimate life's goal of meeting Meryl Streep, I would be picking up his cholesterol meds and scheduling his hair appointments -- things I did willingly and happily, however perhaps not the most fulfilling way for me to spend my fifties.
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I would be picked up after work.
Having already represented the country in One-Day Internationals and Twenty20 matches, I knew I would be picked to play test cricket one day.
I knew I was in the frame and that I was good enough, but I wondered if I would be picked because I had retired from international rugby.
I was not given the address - even if I had it would have been useless since the fake postcode leads to the middle of a field - but instead told I would be picked up at the station by a man called Dell, a member of Shy's 'staff'staff
If I'd produced a drama feature, I'd be picking out a lot in Malibu to build my house on.
I remember having a powerful fantasy that as an adult I'd be picking up hitch-hikers and telling the young people I picked up about the ways of the world.
"Not in a million years would I have ever thought I'd be picking up someone like that".
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