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"I wouldn't say I'm scared, but aware. I don't want to have that pain in my chest ever again. It was terrifying," said Kirby, who is now in her second season with Brighton.

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"When I came out of that, I stopped the hunger strikes because I was a bit terrified of how far I went," he says.

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The only person to show up on the departure date, however, is Ada, 22, a seamstress and house cleaner who is terrified of polar bears.

A mysterious infection that weakened its hosts’ immune systems was killing people at a terrifying rate, while the Reagan administration downplayed and openly joked about the disease.

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When she loses her cycle, she is forced to run up the helix of a parking garage at normal human speed, giving a pathetic comedic element to someone who ought to be terrifying.

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

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