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Chris -- 2018-04-11
‘Mixed emotions’ is a colloquialism for emotional conflict, doubt or uncertainty. ‘Missed emotions’ captures part of the meaning. About 200 ghits:
Being a single parent not receiving child support, I have missed emotions about putting someone in jail for failure to pay…
www.kthv.com/11listens_at_5/ 11_listens_e-mails_full.asp?storyid=13349
... that it is awesome! Sure your first day is full of missed emotions and you
are scared to death, but you will do fine.
courses.smsu.edu/ldm742t/advice.htm
I was subdued, watching with missed emotions as the children came in and sang for us. www.gavd.co.uk/gavduganda.pdf
Bale left her in a state of missed emotions trying to discern his words, trying to understand the meaning behind them.
dndonlinegames.com/showthread.php?t=8082
We have each taught in the same district for about 15 years. I have missed emotions as does My wife. does anyone teach with their spouse and how is it?
www.longislandweb.com/longislandweb-cgi-bin/ webbbs_files/chalktalk/secondary/secondary_config.pl?read=140
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