As Angie Tarkenton _ the girls'mother _ sunned on the beach with a friend and my husband, John, took a long walk in the sand, I camped out at a poolside table under a bright yellow umbrella and sipped my first frozen libation of the season, a strawberry daiquiri.
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In Lebanon Junction, Ky ., a man, woman and child slept in a pickup truck on high ground as rising water crept over the roof of their home, copperheads sunned on the shingles and a Red Cross bologna sandwich made a little boy not mind so much about his washed-away toys.
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For a day and a half, we floated, paddled and waded along the Rio Grande, sunned like turtles, crossed from Texas into Mexico and back again a good two dozen times, slept under an impossibly starry sky, ate outrageously good camp food, and saw no human beings other than two friendly guides from Far Flung Adventures, the rafting company we had chosen to help arrange our trip.
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It's a closed set that does this, you can't introduce it to other words ( e . g . " I sunned myself ", " I framed a picture ", " I filled a hole " . ) It's just that some verbs have irregular past tenses, which is generally because they reflect an old regular way of doing things that has since been replaced.
