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And then on and on he went some more.
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“Well, some days it feels like the fire just goes on and on and on and on,” Huneven said.
From Los Angeles Times
“And I’m just going on and on, about how obviously the letter had nothing to do with you being adopted because I got the same letter and I’m not adopted and—and—I don’t know what I was thinking, because then I said, ‘Right, Dad?
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It went on and on and on, agonizingly.
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“I thought the opposite of that was the last five minutes of math class, when the teacher’s going on and on and on about decimals,” she said.
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