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After my divorce from my #2 wife, I shillyshallied about living where I chose, mafficking about the U.S., getting divorced in Haiti and staying there 3 months, then coming back and rocking and rolling all over California, then dropping in on Texas again as I flew back to NYC to began life in NYC Volume 2, another dawning, another chance, another effort.
From Out of the Past Come the Thundering Hoofbeats The Daily Growler 2006
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"Well, the truth is, I saw you did not want to go; you kept holding back from it; and if I _had_ spoken you would have shillyshallied over it until the season was over.
Elster's Folly Henry Wood 1850
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