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She was going out with a divorced fella for a few years, near gave Marie a heart attack, but it didn’t last.
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I don't see what there is to misunderstand. This "near" is the adverb meaning "almost", if that's what you mean, but any dictionary will tell you that. Marie, the mother of the girl going out with the "divorced fella", was so dismayed by her daughter's affair with him that she almost suffered a myocardial infarction—not literally.
- I don't see what there is to misunderstand.
- This "near" is the adverb meaning "almost", if that's what you mean, but any dictionary will tell you that.
- Marie, the mother of the girl going out with the "divorced fella", was so dismayed by her daughter's affair with him that she almost suffered a myocardial infarction—not literally.
- People say they almost had a heart attack to mean that something shocked or upset them very much.
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I don't see what there is to misunderstand. This "near" is the adverb meaning "almost", if that's what you mean, but any dictionary will tell you that. Marie, the mother of the girl going out with the "divorced fella", was so dismayed by her daughter's affair with him that she almost suffered a myocardial infarction—not literally. People say they almost had a heart attack to mean that somethin
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