JUDY GARLAND was thisclose to signing an exclusive TV contract with NBC, but the deal fell through.
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Sources indicate that Danzig is thisclose to signing a new label deal.
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Bridget is the only one at school who knows that I came thisclose to letting Marcus Flutie devirginize me last New Year's Eve.
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He knew he was thisclose to cuffing Bobbie Faye. Thisclose to keeping her from getting killed in the inevitable cross fire he sensed was coming; he felt it all the way to the cellular level of his bones.
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