Justin's younger brother and mother as well as Sarah's mother frequently help care for the children. ... Sarah is the oldest child, with two younger brothers and one younger sister. ... Justin is a husband, father, brother, grandson, and son. ... Our first child was born less than a year into our marriage, and she wasn't even a year old when we found out we were expecting again. ... Of the delineated tasks required of this stage, Justin and Sarah have found "collaboration in child-rearing, financial...

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My brother, Kylas father, has a problem with alcohol. He has gone to many rehabilitation centers, but has not found help yet. ... She and my brother are not together and are fighting for custody of Kyla. My brother is only allowed to see his daughter every other Sunday.because of the custody battle. It worked out well that my brother was able to see his daughter on her birthday. ...

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My brother and I in each others faces for three days straight without any breathing space. ... And my mom was two months pregnant with my little brother Ahmed at the time. ... But my brother found a boy his age. So I really had no one to play with because if my brother had another boy to play with him why would he want to play with me. ... And then Alhamdulillah we found the house we are living in now. ...

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She started to tell me but she broke down crying and handed the phone to my brother who was sitting next to her. ... He said "the doctors found fluid around his heart, cancer in his body and he has blood clots. ... I hung up the phone with my brother and started to cry. ... I called my brother and this time my mom answered. ... My brother said yes and put the phone to his ear for me. ...

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I wasn't the only child, I have a brother whose name is Giuseppe Fazzari and is now 19 years old. ... After years were passing by and while my brother and I were getting older my parents decided it was time to move because the house was too small for us. ... Good things that came out of immigrating to Canada were to find a career and make a successful living because in Italy there wasn't any work that could have been found. ... When these words hit my ears I just hoped that my brother wasn't in downtown Brooklyn at that time because my brother went to New York that exact week. I...

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His brother Matt is really sick, possibly from radiation caused by the bomb. ... When the bomb hits he is playing around in a playroom shelter with his brother and his girlfriend. ... Philip's brother becomes very sick and his mother had been burnt severely and needed immediate medical attention. Philip struggles to keep his brother from getting even sicker than he is when he brings his mother to a hospital. ... Philip found his neighbor and his wife in good shape and arranged to bring his family over to the neighbor's nice cool basement to escape the blazing heat from the bomb. ...

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(Hinton, 57) Instead, it is Rusty's best friend Steve and his brother who treats the wound and offer compassion. ... Rusty's life also lacks a maternal influence, as his mother abandoned her husband and two sons while Rusty and his brother were infants. ... Rusty regards Motorcycle Boy as a friend instead of a brother: "He was the coolest person in the world. Even if he hadn't been my brother he would have been the coolest person in the world." ... For instance, when Motorcycle Boy decides to take his brother into town, Rusty convinces Steve to sneak out and finally agrees to a...

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In the short story "My Brother, Gary Gilmore", Mikal Gilmore has a recurring dream in which he returns to the town he grew up in. ... Mikal's brothers are all there. ... Mikal's brother Frank is in the dream among the dead. ... His family is dead and his name has been scarred by the acts of his brother. But the dream has showed him that taking his life is not the answer, in fact no answers can be found after death, which is more terrifying than living. ...

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Our curfew wasn't really ever a big deal with my brother and me. ... My brother and I would moan and groan for days until our parents would go and meet their parents. ... I went from the bus stop to Robert's house one day while my older brother walked home. ... She had six other brothers and sisters. ... He had rules and curfews similar to my brother, sister, and me. ...

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What I saw could not have been my brother. ... I do feel a little better now because he has found a way to cover himself with a sheet instead of hiding under te sofa. ... He is a hideous sight to look at even though he is still my brother. ... It is never going to turn back into the brother I once knew... I did cry for a moment when I found out, but I got over it. ...

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What I saw could not have been my brother. ... I do feel a little better now because he has found a way to cover himself with a sheet instead of hiding under te sofa. ... He is a hideous sight to look at even though he is still my brother. ... It is never going to turn back into the brother I once knew... I did cry for a moment when I found out, but I got over it. ...

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Especially last year, we celebrated for one family member (my brother) who just came to US from VN. ... My father, the main worker in the family, found an assembly job but they paid him a little because he had no experience and he was old. Besides that, my brothers and I couldn't stay there and look. ... I usually talked to him that he was getting old, so he just stopped working and let my brothers and me support the family. ...

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None of my brothers understood him, and it was difficult to speak calmly with him because he was a hot tempered person. ... I found my mother's old British passport safely kept in the drawer and some job-seeking letters that belong to my father. ... I hated my brothers for being able to accept and forget as if nothing had happened. ... In fact, I begin to feel pity for my brothers because it was me who had many enjoyable and memorable times with my father. ...

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Later on in the day and including the night the family was getting back from to doctor, they found out that the ill son had that devastating illness. ... The older brother was jealous of his younger brother because of his achievements and the attention that his parents give him cause he was sick. ...

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Once upon a time, a little girl lived in a tiny white house with her mom, dad, and older brother. ... While she grew up, she found friends who remained with her from elementary school to junior year of high school. ... When my dad finally left my tiny white house, my mom took care of my older brother and me. ... It was so sudden and unexpected that neither my brother nor I saw it coming until our mom introduced him to us as our stepfather. ... When he gained my brother's trust and love, we truly became a family though they were not the only family I had. ...

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Lally one and Lally two are brothers. ... Lally one wasn't nice to his brother and now he is. ... All of the characters except Teft , used the radios and wore headgear but as the characters grew throughout the novel they found out that they didn't need them anymore so they threw them away. ... Teft found a way of transportation to get to the buffalo preserve. ...

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My name is Josh Thayer; I am the first born into my family and have one other brother, who is four years behind me. ... Since we were part of the church, I found myself doing a lot of community service work through the church, sometimes because I wanted and sometimes because my mom made me. ... I will talk in terms of the difference between how my parents treated me and my brother. ... My brother always says to me that I paved the way for him and made it so much easier for him growing up. ... My mom always found a way to communicate to me. ...

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The feeling of home was nowhere to be found in that house that afternoon. ... I gazed out the window and found that my mother's car was still not parked in its usual spot. ... My brother and sister jumped off the couch and greeted him at the door with a hug as usual. ... My brother and sister walked back into the living room and packed up their backpacks. ... My brother, sister, and I all put on our jackets and shoes and started out the door behind him. ...

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Then, my aunt and uncle had found out and had immediately gotten a license to foster the four of us. ... And the first few months of it were, I couldn't have been happier living with my new family with my three siblings and the two new brothers I had that were previously my cousins. ... But the worst part is he never got mad at my brother Nathaniel. ... He very often took his anger out on my two brothers, Joey and Dillen, and me, but not often on my two sisters, Brittnie and Kourtney. And there was not a single memory I have of him every laying a hand on my younger brother, Nathaniel. ...

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On this particular summer day, however, my brother, his friend, and I were more bored than a deaf guy at a concert. ... It was my turn now and I wanted to jump and flip just as my big brother had. ... I heard my brother screaming, "Move Nay, it's my turn!... I looked my brother's friend and asked him how bad my lip was because I felt as if my lip had its own heartbeat. ... When we arrived at the hospital, they sent me to get x-rays and found broken teeth stuck in my mouth that required surgery. ...

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I had never heard of this event before and as soon as I found out what the event was for it immediately peaked my interest and I wanted to go. ... The girl later found out the truth, but also discovered that she was not the only baby in her biological mothers womb. She had a brother named Jonathon. ... I could never imagine losing my brother, Mike, because words can't even describe how much he means to me. ... This really hit me hard, because before my brother Mike was born, my adoption parents found out that after I was born I had major heart problems which resulted in staying in the is...

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So Amatokwu's family found him a junior wife who becomes pregnant in a month. ... Chapter 4 - First shocks of motherhood So he found her a husband that lived in Lagos. His brother Owulum took her to meet her new husband. ... He had to take all of his brother worldly possessions that included his wives. ... Shortly after Nnaife brother's death Aduka arrived with her daughter. ...

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Like always I had to share a room with my sister while my brothers had their own. ... It was a big blue teddy bear that was mine, I found him walking home from school one day somebody just threw him in the trash. ... I can still remember it, my brothers were down stairs causing some type of trouble, and my sister was in the kitchen watching Yolanda cook. ... Needless to say they found me behind the bear, they took me down stairs. ... I found later why that happened, all those "parties" down in the basement were an illegal bar that my father had set up. ...

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At the ripe age of four he would abandon my one year-old brother (Malachi) and I at home while he would go make drug deals or snort, or whatever it was that he did during the hours he left us. ... I remember climbing onto the counter to microwave my brother's milk, I remember sitting indian style on the counter to fry pancakes, I remember how normal doing grown up things and taking care of a toddler seemed normal to me. ... Eventually he could not hide his addiction and my mom found out. ...

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But she has a core of strength, found in Edda, too, that allows her to finally give up the past and take the family forward. ... But she has a core of strength, found in Edda, too, that allows her to finally give up the past and take the family forward. ... Edda, her younger brother Jimmy, her high-principled mother Frances and her great-uncle Banker are that rare breed of fictional character: thoughtful individuals with active inner lives....

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