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She adores her elder brother.

He longed for her talented skills.

Her dream is to become a simultaneous interpreter.

The boy gazed at the player dreamily.

We look back on days gone by, if not always with affections, at any rate with a kind of wistfulness.

The young professor is adored by the girl students.

I was at a musical recently, in the third row. Seeing the actor I love up close like that made me feel more smitten with him than ever.

I'm saving up to buy my dream phone.