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My adult self, however, has a lot of experience of illness and doctors, and has even had surgery under anaesthetic without shattering, dry-retching terror.
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Hecklerspray takes no responsibility for the amount of dry-retching caused by that last sentence.
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US Open, Pennetta moved to 30-0 - two points away from victory - when her body seized up and she was left doubled over at the back of the court, dry-retching from sheer dehydration.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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