After running all those miles, I felt that I couldn't walk another step, but in the panic after the explosions, there was no choice.

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Surrounded by a few well-edited and suggestive elements, Miller blond and blue-eyed, and boyishly handsome sits smack in the center of the store at a simple table. (He prefers to handle sales himself, and when he must be out of town, he calls his father to step in.) Walk into the store in the early-morning hours and chances are Miller will be there, sipping a coffee and poring over books of fabric suiting.

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We're going to walk with the people whose lives have been upended, those who've lost loved ones -- we're going to walk with them every step of the way in the hard road ahead, because that's what we do as Americans. (Applause.) We help our neighbors and friends rebuild.

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And for those willing to take that step, to make that walk, know that you will have a steady partner in the United States of America.

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He is forever being asked to step into the spare bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen, even the walk-in closet, because someone wants to show him something.

NEWYORKER: Brother on Sunday

When he got around the corner with the pie man in pursuit, all the rest of the boys would step up to the truck and walk away with fifteen pies.

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She still moved like the dancer she had been in college, her feet pointed slightly outward, her head high, her walk more a glide than something taken step by step.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield