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It is certainly disheartening, but I have hope--which brings me to the Internet, which I am thrilled to talk about all day and night.
Indeed, it would be disheartening, as well as entirely untrue, if one were to think that this book was published as an act of philanthropy, as something that ought to be done.
This may be disheartening for 2Pac fans to contemplate, but, while Jesus did return, it wasn't for long.
Seeing Newt so shrunken is somewhat disheartening.
In many Western countries and Brazil (the sources of the majority of the available data on the subject), the impressive drop in mortality due to HIV following increased access to ART is coupled with a disheartening rise in the number of new cases of HIV, as emphasis and funding are shifted from prevention to treatment [2].