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Our current thinking is that it is best for parents to share the story of donor conception with their children at a very early age, so that if I were to ask their child when they are an adult when they learned that they were donor conceived, they would respond that they ‘ always knew, ’ this allows the child to grow up with the information, as opposed to learning it later in life, when it comes as a surprise or shock and can hurt their trust in their parents and their identity development. – Lauri Pasch	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When a community finds itself deprived of its sense of identity, because of whatever historical shock or fracture with its past, it invents traditions to act as founding myths, italian cuisine really is more American than it is Italian. – Alberto Grandi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People do n’t really have a memory of what it was like 10, 15, 20 years ago with the different laws and what could and could n’t be done, so I get quite a lot of shock at how difficult it was for us to be in a long term relationship at that point. – Jemma Warner-Gregory	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. – The Covenant School	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our community is heartbroken, we are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. – The Covenant School	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our community is heartbroken. We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing, law enforcement is conducting its investigation, and while we understand there is a lot of interest and there will be a lot of discussion about and speculation surrounding what happened, we will continue to prioritize the well-being of our community. We appreciate the outpouring of support we have received, and we are tremendously grateful to the first responders who acted quickly to protect our students, faculty and staff. We ask for privacy as our community grapples with this terrible tragedy – for our students, parents, faculty and staff. – Covenant School	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Everyone was in shock and looking at their cars and the building where the smoke was exiting, we heard another smaller boom and everyone started to either get in their cars to leave or go back into their work building for safety. – Stephenie Davis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People only now start realizing what happened to them after this shock period. – Turkey Representative Batyr Berdyklychev	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The day went by, and we did n’t hear anything about Luke Hoyer. We kept hoping they would find Luke Hoyer wandering around in shock, by 7 o’clock, I said, ‘ I do n’t like this. This is not good, ’. – Janice Stroud	Found on CNN 1 year ago
With interest rates still running well below the 7% range we saw in the fall, the psychological shock of the 2022 rate jump is wearing off for buyers, leading to a favorable adjustment in expectations. – George Ratiu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was like a little shock for me, but then he used to say that he was going to get the divorce, he was getting the divorce – and never got the divorce. And then I went to find out that they only got the divorce in (2019). – Pedro Vilarva	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Eating food loaded with protein and carbohydrates can significantly slow down the absorption of alcohol, the slower the alcohol gets to your brain, the less rapid the ‘ shock ’ to your brain. – John Brick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You could feel the energy. It was electric. I think after the 2020 election, and because of the shock of all the things that happened, and the answers that we never really feel that we got, this sinking realization that we might actually be losing our country, I think that it pushed Joe Raedle/Getty Images into an angry space, where Joe Raedle/Getty Images does n’t trust anybody, where Joe Raedle/Getty Images does n’t listen to anybody, where Joe Raedle/Getty Images’s almost likely to believe that everybody is trying to turn their back on Joe Raedle/Getty Images and stab Joe Raedle/Getty Images in the back. And again, I do n’t believe that that’s leadership. – Candace Owens	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
January 6th was a terrible day in our nation's history. I'm still in shock and not in awe, some 650 days later, voters are focused on rising crime and rising costs, not January 6th, which ranked as the NINETEENTH most important issue in the latest Harvard-Harris poll. – Kellyanne Conway	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Last night at a rally held by the former President, and today at a political rally held by a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, supporters were urged to hold up their right hands in a unified salute that should shock the conscience of every American for its remarkable similarity to the 'Heil Hitler' salute used by the Nazis. – Anna Kaplan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It was just so amazing to finally get to hear his voice again and speak to him, i was still kind of in shock, so I was like' How do I know it's really you ?' and he said this inside joke we have between each other and instantly I was like,' It's him. It's really him.'. – Joy Black	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They are experiencing quite a bit of sticker shock because what they see on Instagram or TikTok, they have no idea what it costs. – Oniki Hardtman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
PEN America is reeling from shock and horror at the word of a brutal, premeditated attack on our former President and stalwart ally, Sir Salman Rushdie, who was reportedly stabbed multiple times while on stage speaking at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, we can think of no comparable incident of a public attack on a literary writer on American soil. – Suzanne Nossel	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These two men not only robbed me, but they robbed a 7-year-old little girl of her mother, when they're initially murdered, the shock is there, but 39 years later the shock is no longer there. – Linda Sheffield	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's been a real shock, i don't think any of us really appreciated how much the pandemic stimulus created a bubble... now the lights have come on and it's a little ugly. – Alan Johnson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Texas Department of Public Safety has offered inconsistent accounts of how law enforcement responded to the Uvalde tragedy, and its lack of transparency has stirred suspicion and frustration in a community that is still struggling with grief and shock, dPS has refused numerous requests by these news organizations even though it's clear under Texas law that the public is entitled to have access to these important public records. We ask that the court grant our petition so that the people of Texas can understand the truth about what happened. – Laura Lee	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was a complete shock the day of. I actually found her at 2:30 in the morning, which was the worst thing of my life. – Ray Stenglein	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Christ Hospital has been unbelievable. They saved his life. When I saw him the other morning, I thought he was gonna die in front of me. He was going into shock. Christ Hospital brought him back. They saved him. Hats off to Christ Hospital. I can't say enough. – Tom Hopkins	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think Flagler County would shock the country to understand that Flagler County goes from teenagers to middle-aged people, people that you would not expect to be taking any type of drug. There's no specific demographic, no specific wealth involved here, it’s an invasion of America by killing our residents, our citizens, because we’re not controlling the fentanyl coming across the border. – Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

Our current thinking is that it is best for parents to share the story of donor conception with their children at a very early age, so that if I were to ask their child when they are an adult when they learned that they were donor conceived, they would respond that they ‘ always knew, ’ this allows the child to grow up with the information, as opposed to learning it later in life, when it comes as a surprise or shock and can hurt their trust in their parents and their identity development.

– Lauri Pasch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When a community finds itself deprived of its sense of identity, because of whatever historical shock or fracture with its past, it invents traditions to act as founding myths, italian cuisine really is more American than it is Italian.

– Alberto Grandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People do n’t really have a memory of what it was like 10, 15, 20 years ago with the different laws and what could and could n’t be done, so I get quite a lot of shock at how difficult it was for us to be in a long term relationship at that point.

– Jemma Warner-Gregory

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church.

– The Covenant School

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our community is heartbroken, we are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church.

– The Covenant School

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our community is heartbroken. We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing, law enforcement is conducting its investigation, and while we understand there is a lot of interest and there will be a lot of discussion about and speculation surrounding what happened, we will continue to prioritize the well-being of our community. We appreciate the outpouring of support we have received, and we are tremendously grateful to the first responders who acted quickly to protect our students, faculty and staff. We ask for privacy as our community grapples with this terrible tragedy – for our students, parents, faculty and staff.

– Covenant School

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Everyone was in shock and looking at their cars and the building where the smoke was exiting, we heard another smaller boom and everyone started to either get in their cars to leave or go back into their work building for safety.

– Stephenie Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People only now start realizing what happened to them after this shock period.

– Turkey Representative Batyr Berdyklychev

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The day went by, and we did n’t hear anything about Luke Hoyer. We kept hoping they would find Luke Hoyer wandering around in shock, by 7 o’clock, I said, ‘ I do n’t like this. This is not good, ’.

– Janice Stroud

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With interest rates still running well below the 7% range we saw in the fall, the psychological shock of the 2022 rate jump is wearing off for buyers, leading to a favorable adjustment in expectations.

– George Ratiu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was like a little shock for me, but then he used to say that he was going to get the divorce, he was getting the divorce – and never got the divorce. And then I went to find out that they only got the divorce in (2019).

– Pedro Vilarva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Eating food loaded with protein and carbohydrates can significantly slow down the absorption of alcohol, the slower the alcohol gets to your brain, the less rapid the ‘ shock ’ to your brain.

– John Brick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You could feel the energy. It was electric. I think after the 2020 election, and because of the shock of all the things that happened, and the answers that we never really feel that we got, this sinking realization that we might actually be losing our country, I think that it pushed Joe Raedle/Getty Images into an angry space, where Joe Raedle/Getty Images does n’t trust anybody, where Joe Raedle/Getty Images does n’t listen to anybody, where Joe Raedle/Getty Images’s almost likely to believe that everybody is trying to turn their back on Joe Raedle/Getty Images and stab Joe Raedle/Getty Images in the back. And again, I do n’t believe that that’s leadership.

– Candace Owens

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

January 6th was a terrible day in our nation's history. I'm still in shock and not in awe, some 650 days later, voters are focused on rising crime and rising costs, not January 6th, which ranked as the NINETEENTH most important issue in the latest Harvard-Harris poll.

– Kellyanne Conway

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Last night at a rally held by the former President, and today at a political rally held by a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, supporters were urged to hold up their right hands in a unified salute that should shock the conscience of every American for its remarkable similarity to the 'Heil Hitler' salute used by the Nazis.

– Anna Kaplan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It was just so amazing to finally get to hear his voice again and speak to him, i was still kind of in shock, so I was like' How do I know it's really you ?' and he said this inside joke we have between each other and instantly I was like,' It's him. It's really him.'.

– Joy Black

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are experiencing quite a bit of sticker shock because what they see on Instagram or TikTok, they have no idea what it costs.

– Oniki Hardtman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

PEN America is reeling from shock and horror at the word of a brutal, premeditated attack on our former President and stalwart ally, Sir Salman Rushdie, who was reportedly stabbed multiple times while on stage speaking at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, we can think of no comparable incident of a public attack on a literary writer on American soil.

– Suzanne Nossel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These two men not only robbed me, but they robbed a 7-year-old little girl of her mother, when they're initially murdered, the shock is there, but 39 years later the shock is no longer there.

– Linda Sheffield

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's been a real shock, i don't think any of us really appreciated how much the pandemic stimulus created a bubble... now the lights have come on and it's a little ugly.

– Alan Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Texas Department of Public Safety has offered inconsistent accounts of how law enforcement responded to the Uvalde tragedy, and its lack of transparency has stirred suspicion and frustration in a community that is still struggling with grief and shock, dPS has refused numerous requests by these news organizations even though it's clear under Texas law that the public is entitled to have access to these important public records. We ask that the court grant our petition so that the people of Texas can understand the truth about what happened.

– Laura Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was a complete shock the day of. I actually found her at 2:30 in the morning, which was the worst thing of my life.

– Ray Stenglein

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Christ Hospital has been unbelievable. They saved his life. When I saw him the other morning, I thought he was gonna die in front of me. He was going into shock. Christ Hospital brought him back. They saved him. Hats off to Christ Hospital. I can't say enough.

– Tom Hopkins

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think Flagler County would shock the country to understand that Flagler County goes from teenagers to middle-aged people, people that you would not expect to be taking any type of drug. There's no specific demographic, no specific wealth involved here, it’s an invasion of America by killing our residents, our citizens, because we’re not controlling the fentanyl coming across the border.

– Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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