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  • If this week's promo is to be taken at face value, we will finally see the long-separated and long-suffering Jin and Sun reunited on the island.

    The 'Lost' 5: Questions ahead of 'The Last Recruit' 2010

  • It also is considering Pyongyang's offer to resume bringing together long-separated families on the Korean peninsula.

    South Korea's Red Cross to Send Aid to Flood-Stricken North 2010

  • Between Aaron's Uncle Jack, Mama Claire, and Mama Kate and Ji Yeon's long-separated parents, there is hopefully enough sacrificial "candidates" back on lost island to ensure that our two toddlers remain safe where they are -- regardless of what they may need to do to restore balance to the force.

    LOST: The Answer To Life, The Universe, And Everything James F. McGrath 2010

  • Her aria is one of the most beautiful things Verdi ever wrote, which is saying something, and the scene culminates in just about my favorite duet in all of Verdi, when Simon and Amelia realize that they are the long-separated padre e figlia father and daughter.

    Archive 2008-09-01 sfmike 2008

  • Her aria is one of the most beautiful things Verdi ever wrote, which is saying something, and the scene culminates in just about my favorite duet in all of Verdi, when Simon and Amelia realize that they are the long-separated padre e figlia father and daughter.

    San Francisco Opera Opening 1 sfmike 2008

  • I always enjoyed the brief glimpses of people's lives: grandparents meeting grandchildren for the first time; long-separated sweethearts; awkward reunions; people who you can tell just don't get along.

    REVIEW: 253 - The Print Remix by Geoff Ryman 2006

  • So when he fully understood his long-separated parents, who would both be accepting and no-nonsense when Dashiell officially came out in college, had clearly disdained gay people back in their book, which claimed to be the sex manual for everyman and every woman, he subtly turned from them further.

    The Position Meg Wolitzer 2005

  • From an emotional level, it is easier to connect with “The Oracle” and its family of sincere yet flawed individuals long-separated by frayed emotions and brought together too late by a tragedy which fails to provide the cathartic state required to put ill-will to rest.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2003

  • Ultimately that competition may give way to reconciliation: long-separated siblings are usually destined to be reunited in Shakespeare's plays, and young siblings, faced with outward dangers, may well band together, like the two doomed young princes in Richard III.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Eventually a recognition scene restores the brothers not only to each other but to their long-separated mother and father.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

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