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"I go back to this larger voyage we're all on, and so you take everything a day at a time," Sanford told a mob of reporters on the granite steps of the Civil War-era Capitol. The governor said he would not "say anything definitive" about serving out the remainder of his term, " but my hunch would be that it's a good example, with regard to my boys, that if you fall down in life, you can get back up."

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