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"My dream of facing my brother in the Champions League is distant, but it has not disappeared," Ethan said on social media after he was ruled out of that match.

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As he breathes in the sea air, such freedom felt distant earlier this year as he fought starvation, abuse and violence.

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The playing was sumptuous but formal and distant.

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In Aso’s manga, just after the Joker figure appears, Arisu envisions a scene of a large, humanoid creature poling a boat full of figures across a body of water toward a distant shore.

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The government's decision to set a distant date for the next round of talks, despite people being on a hunger strike, particularly made them angry, he added.

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