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Hot tears flood down my face and I blow my nose into a stray leaf.
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And we’d head out through the fields and orchard and around the base of the mountain, Rufus running ahead seeing how many things he could stick his nose into in one night without getting stuck back or stung or sprayed.
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With Jonathan’s face out of the water, Moose brought his own nose into the air, filling his lungs quickly.
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Sassafras Springs didn’t have a newspaper, and we didn’t need one either with Rae Ellen poking her nose into everybody’s business.
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Virgo did pantomime in his time, befriended his hero George Best, and was even the first man to attempt to comfort Steve Davis moments after his famous black-ball final defeat by Dennis Taylor in 1985, poking his nose into the deposed champion's dressing room to find him in a flood of tears, inconsolable.
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