I had thought I would hate being First Lady. . . . I loved it.
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And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink." Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'Betty Ford
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When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
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The process turns you off, and it's got to where I don't even know who's lying and who's telling the truth anymore,
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