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Personally, I hate it when people come up to me and say, “Did Michael Jackson really do all those things?”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Alejandro says that when he saw his three-year-old daughter, Luna, come up to hug him in the airport, he felt profound emotion.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Low End Theory at the Airliner — I’d be hanging out with Flying Lotus or Tyler would drop an album and come up to perform.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

“All the time, people come up to me ... and they say ‘thank you so much.’

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

So l cut back through the woodlot and across the snowy fields so I could come up to the house from behind.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier




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