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And you know you will always wonder all of your life whether it was because you wanted him so bad that you didn't get him, and you can feel nearly sorry enough to cry when you think of that other guy, the chump who begged you to marry him, the one with the plastered hair and the car he couldn't afford and the too-shiny shoes.
His family couldn't afford baseball equipment, so he practiced by hitting bottle caps with sticks.
The Jupiter ACE was new to the market and the designers couldn't afford to use an uncommitted logic array ( ULA ), a design approach then gaining popularity in other computers ( such as the ZX 81 ) to reduce component count, because these weren't economical in small quantities.
Before that, tourists who couldn't afford to stay in a hotel either slept in their cars or pitched their tents in fields alongside the road.
The D-Day scenes in Saving Private Ryan were shot with the cooperation of the Irish army because the French couldn't afford to close down the real Omaha Beach due to it being a monument.
According to his son's documentary film in 2003 the family couldn't afford pencils but made their own charcoal sticks from burnt twigs so that Louis could earn a little money from drawings and later by playing piano to accompany silent movies.
Mercer Ellington has stated that Juan Tizol invented the melody to " Caravan " in 1936 as a result of his days studying music in Puerto Rico ; where they couldn't afford much sheet music so the teacher would turn the music upside down after they had learned to play it right-side up.
I asked my dad for a set of drums for my tenth birthday but he came home with a Sears Silvertone guitar ... I had wanted a set of drums, but my folks couldn't afford them, so I got the guitar.
After losing another duel of Bible quotes with Mother Maria, Smith acknowledges that he has always wanted to be an architect, but couldn't afford the schooling.
Once, after spending his allowance on a large bag of sweets, he met a young boy outside the store who couldn't afford any.
In 1973, his first year with the Padres, he began buying blocks of tickets to Padres games for families who couldn't afford to go to games, in a program known as " pavilions.
At the market place of Wijk bij Duurstede is one of the few church towers in the Netherlands with a flat roof, so built because the bishop couldn't afford to build a spire.
Hingham cemetery is unique in that it once had an area known as potters field where people that committed suicide or couldn't afford to buy a plot were placed.
Seattle group Green River chose to record their Dry as a Bone EP for Pavitt's new label in June 1986 ; Pavitt couldn't afford to release it until the following year.
Family finances required Joe to take 12-hour shifts in the mill, and since education at the time was a luxury the Jackson family couldn't afford, Jackson was uneducated.
These include tricking a crooked lawyer attempting to sue Strickland into making it appear as though he is the one who injured his plaintiff and forcing a veterinarian who was shaking him down on costly and unnecessary treatments for a soldier's cat to approve the cat's file ( Hank told the vet's customers about a completely inefficient imaging machine the vet couldn't afford ).
They decided they couldn't afford to take the time from their schedules unless it was a working vacation, and used the trip to research the defeat of the Admiral Graf Spee.
The same year he began working at a farm in Wersen near Osnabrück but gave up becoming a farmer as he couldn't afford to buy his own farm.
Brakhage couldn't afford to replace it, instead opting to buy cheaper 8mm film equipment.
Therefore, Stapes fans couldn't afford enough tickets to make a team possible.
One of the casualties of the team's financial woes was Mullaney, who resigned after being told the team couldn't afford to meet his contract.
You know most of them couldn't afford to be there.
Because of the oil embargo of 1974, the Howard Johnson's restaurants and motor lodges, which maintained 85 % of revenues from travelers, lost profit when Americans couldn't afford to drive long trips or take frequent vacations.
He became quite popular and became known as " the poor man's counciler " as he offered to defend poor men when they couldn't afford a lawyer.

couldn't and have
`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??
They couldn't have much dough, but then none of the freight-bums Feathertop rolled had much.
For a while there was such shrill girlish commotion I couldn't have made myself heard if I'd had the equivalent of the message to Garcia.
Why couldn't they have dumped him off on someone else??
And they couldn't have entrusted Henri to better hands because `` le professeur '' knows his muscles from the sterno-cleido mastoideus of the neck right down to the tibialis anticus of the leg and better still, he knows just what exercises work best for them and what Weider principles to combine them with for fast, fast muscle growth.
We have seen good new products shelved because no one had the assignment to develop such facts and plans -- and management couldn't make up its mind.
You certainly couldn't take them into the little apartment and if you tried to farm them out for two or three days every week they would become so confused that they would have nervous breakdowns.
Perhaps you couldn't do that but have you ever tried to see what you could do with a hunk of wood??
Outside of combat, he couldn't have landed in a tougher spot.
`` You must have loved that girl very much, but you couldn't have meant it when you said that you wanted to kill her ''.
`` -- had enough brains to call ya up so as ya could do sompin about it when the parents -- I coulda let her go go '' -- His eyes were lowered, so he couldn't have seen the narrow, pointed face of his companion suddenly writhe with fury ; ;
There was a wet spot -- she couldn't have been gone long ''.
Unless he was stone-blind, the person who'd just left couldn't have missed seeing Hank through the open door of the brightly lighted room.
And he certainly couldn't have guessed that she would resist his demand for the gold or that she was not the yielding -- yes, and credible fool he had every right to expect.
( `` I certainly was not at the Dumont last night and my husband couldn't have been.
He was named Pompeii as a tribute to his heritage, and he couldn't have cared less about that either.
But when Miss Jen went over right away to return the call, Miss Kiz couldn't have been very cordial, for she'd come back before she hardly had time to get there.
It comes to you that probably he did feel that way to let you use him like you did when you couldn't have Gratt Shafer ; ;
You wonder about the Christmas card with no name on it, and it comes to you that maybe it would have been better to have made somebody else happy if you couldn't be happy yourself, to give somebody else the one they wanted -- to give them you.
And girls couldn't have dressed like that -- it isn't transparent enough ''.
Maybe I couldn't have called a taxi.

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