The friendly goodbyes we offer are also simply meant.
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They visited and stayed until 7 pm, and they said their goodbyes.
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What about the golden goodbyes, golden parachutes, given to people leaving firms, even when those firms have failed?
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As he waves good-bye, he walks away, into the sunset.
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There were crying women at every train station, sayinggoodbyeto those men who were called up for service.
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At the end of the meeting, they saidgoodbye, and they exchanged hugs.
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Bonjour, friend, and good-bye, literary agent, she wrote to him.
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I ran over, the phone off the hook, no time for a propergoodbye.
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Indeed, he had ' saidgoodbye' to her at the end of the visiting hour.
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The very last map appears on the penultimate page of the index, almost as if the author cannot bear to saygoodbye.
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Around fifty people turned up to say good-bye.
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We assume that sayinggoodbyeconfronts a person with the seriousness of the illness, hence the coming death may be more readily accepted.
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Both of them were crying bitterly when we were saying good-bye.
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Intending to have only a simple fling, she tries to end the relationship by leaving him without saying good-bye.
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To remain emotionally available to our patients we must come to an acceptance of their deaths and learn to saygoodbye.
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