But you know, one fantasy I have -- and the Secret Service, they keep looking at me because they think I might actually do it -- is to walk right out the front door and just keep walking. (Laughter.) Just go right over there and go into some shops, and stop and have some ice cream and -- yeah, go shopping.

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And unlike most of their East Coast counterparts--who commonly dredge submerged shellfish beds from boats--Puget Sound oyster growers typically seed beds in tidal shelves right off the beaches, and walk out to tend them and harvest when the tide is down.

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Those were "the olden days, the glory years, " as Connolly called them, and if fans waited long enough, the best players from the Islanders' Stanley Cup-winning teams of the early 1980s Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier, Denis Potvin, Clark Gillies would walk right out the Coliseum's front door and stop to sign autographs and pose for photos.

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So who in their right mind would walk out of a stable career and risk everything?

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"She is so full of life and spirit and she loves playing jokes on people and she likes to keep you on your toes, but musically I have never met anyone who can walk out on stage and consistently sing as in tune and proper and right as Dolly Parton does, " her sometime duet partner Kenny Rogers told CNN.

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Timing is everything in life and now was neither the right time nor the right conditions for a public employee union walk-out.

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And just I have my own little praise party every morning while I'm getting ready and that way I can walk in here and hopefully have the right light, the right energy to inspire everybody else to go out and do the work we have to do.

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Just walk east up 16th Street when you come out of the station about six blocks and then take a right on Alabama, the event is on Alabama between 19th and 20th Streets.

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