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Landlords preferred more conventional retailers in their malls, relegating dentists to out-of-the-way locations if they would lease space to them at all.

"He didn't write as often as I would like. He would tend to write during winter evenings. In the summer evenings he preferred gardening," he said.

Or maybe he would prefer a more recent alumnus who played in the NBA.

Having two Black-majority districts in Louisiana, for example, allowed Black voters to elect their preferred candidates to Congress "for the first time in nearly 30 years," she added.

She said she would prefer schools not to close permanently, as is the likely outcome with Dolphin, especially as it only opened 13 years ago when primary numbers were booming.