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Thompson, from Suffolk, said she and fellow competitors were "mentally drained" having "received backlash and insults" since the decision, which "needs to stop".

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And some families are draining their retirement accounts to keep parents safe at home.

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As it turns out, Gladys, avid in the occult, is keeping those kids in a trance to drain them of their energy and stay alive.

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Rats live in drains, sewers and burrows, and emerge mostly at night, so counting them is nearly impossible and estimates on rat population figures vary.

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She described in her essay the transplant doctors drained from her sister's arms and chemotherapy that made her once "great hair" fall out.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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