of a sort
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That makes us all time travelers of a sort, too, beacons of an increasingly distant era in which it was possible to be unplugged.
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And so we are seeing judicial opinions of a sort that we have not seen before either.
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“And so we are seeing judicial opinions of a sort that we have not seen before either.”
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Speaking of a sort of wind of fate, she says, “All we can wish for our families, for those we love, is that that wind will eventually place us on solid ground. and I believe it’s done just that for my family in this little town, in the middle of nowhere.”
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But taken on its own merits it strikes me as a rather obvious, perfectly ordinary example of a sort of show we’ve often seen before, a feel-good celebration of small town values and traditions and togetherness that will presumably improve the personality of its oddball new resident, as the townspeople come to accept or tolerate him anyway in turn.
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