"I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football."
"Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear."
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Source: John Barnes (2009). “Tales of the Madman Underground”, p.16, Penguin
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