And yes: Quite a few of us bid a fond farewell to a first sweetheart.
One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful.
The Fed is fond of a chart that shows how productivity grew by an average of 3.8% during 1917-27, thanks to the widespread adoption of electrical power.
Sodium, for example, is fond of a certain orange-yellow hue.
Between its first appearance on a Spanish map in 1622 and its fond farewell in a Japanese publication of 1865, California appeared insular on at least 249 separate maps.
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For devotees, it will signal a fond and snuffling farewell, as they bid adieu to a vast parade of clones, Ewoks, Darths, tragic hair styles, noble knights, and strangely fastidious androids.
This image is one of my favourites and it brings back fond memories of a truly beautiful morning.
Hollinghurst seems too ready to perpetuate a fond English elegy that he should, instead, be scrutinizing.
Here, as Buffet notes, stands Grover Norquist, champion of a fond (and very far-fetched) dream.
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One of Argentina's key players said a fond farewell to Brazil last weekend.
The notion of a secretary has become part of a fond communal memory.
Mr Lee is said to have promised to share some tips on boosting manufacturing, a fond ambition of the Emirates.
He has fond memories of a man he says is warm one to one, if not charismatic in front of crowds.
But first, we bid a fond farewell to The New York Times' Circuits section, which ran for the last time this week.
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But he still feels a fond connection to Jersey's hockey franchise.
It was a sad day when the last of our kale wilted but we had a very good spinach omelette and said a fond farewell to it.
At home Exxon rolled up a record 36 billion dollars in profits last year, and its retired chairman Lee Raymond rolled up 400 million dollars as a fond farewell.
So as the sun sinks slowly over Jacobshorn and we bid a fond farewell to Davos, we are reminded why we came to this odd burg in the first place.
It deserves a decent burial and a fond memory.
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Vietnam's bosses recently bade a fond farewell to Fidel Castro, their fellow revolutionary, when he resigned as Cuba's leader, but the days when Vietnam clung to the diminishing band of communist countries are long gone.
When using complaint as a tool to keep the social conversation going and foster a fond, if sometimes contemptuous, loyalty to the organisation, nobody, from the lowliest employees upwards, expects anything to come of it.
That is why Tavares, who had 28 goals and a team-best 47 points while playing in all 48 games, and the rest of his teammates were given such a fond farewell from the fans Saturday night.
But we get an even better and funnier dose of Paul Giamatti, who plays an alternative Harvey, and who is framed, or sometimes drawn, in fond imitation of a comic book the implication being that even the cruddiest lives can, in sympathetic hands, acquire shape and grace.
"I was very fond of Mitterrand as a man and president, " said one of the mourners.
It seemed proof that a regime fond of numerology and superstition ruled neither by divine right nor by popular acquiescence, but by force.
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It is a unique fond of information for the study of the Sea of Aral and of how it came to shrink to 10 per cent of its size in the 1960s.
Chicago is a definite must see for anyone even remotely fond of musicals and if Oscar comes a-calling (and he really should) it will be very well deserved.
The trial has since run through 70 witnesses, many of whom have been played by puppets, including the lime green defense attorney and a bespectacled pal of Mr. Dimora fond of stuffing cash into the clothing of a prostitute.
Another fond memory was going to a Yankees game with him a couple of years ago.
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