"My mind was set, then and there, to return to Texas and then on to Indiana to find Mary Lou," said Larry. ... No one has spent so much time with me for many years." ... She has spent hour after hour working right beside her father, as there were no boys in the family. ... They built a house and then Larry made the fields ready for planting. ... She received a reply in which they were told his parents were both expired, and the sisters and brothers were spread across the U.S.A. ...

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So we all started walking home because there was no one to come get us. ... R took us there. ... We went back to the school after we were done so we could finish up the work. ... When my mother told him she had no money, he asked her how she could have paid for dinner then. ... But soon there was no one left to borrow from because everyone knew what he would spend it on. ...

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There she was the lonesome girl all alone in her bedroom, she was a girl of eighteen years old with no brothers or sisters to talk to. ... Sajda's grandparents were living in Pakistan, her mum (Saida) was thinking of going to Pakistan for a holiday, but there was one thing stopping her, Sajda! ... Saida had no relatives in England they were all in Pakistan. ... That night Sajda went to the toilet, she tried to open the bathroom door but to her it seemed jammed, so she went to her mothers bedroom and she turned the light on and her mother was not insight, she went back outside the bathr...

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Then there's where all the fun begins."" ... We went to the basketball court to see if there was anybody playing and when we got there, there were a bunch of guys that Rogelio knew, so they invited us to pay with them. ... "No hablo ingles."" ... "Then tell me all about her when we get there. ... Si o no?...

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No love between the two people that made everything what it is today. ... They kept trying for a couple more years, and there were some happy times that we all had together during it all. ... But no more then a week would go by and she would leave again. ... We were there for only two months and I came to the conclusion that the only thing that was keeping me there was my family. ... To keep playing no matter how many times they loose. ...

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No one can understand how I felt. ... After all, that is done, we all went to school to take the exam, when I got there, there were lots of people at the school, I was scared and felt like falling down from Somewhere high. ... By the way, we waited too longer more than 3 hours, chairs were so uncomfortable, I was sleepy and no phone, literally there was nothing to do. ... I didn't get what was going on, what were they doing, almost no idea about anything. ... But we had no one in America. ...

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It has always been a tradition in my family to always to go to Marathon Monday this year was no different. ... My mom said, "what do you mean there was an explosion"? ... Right then they had been blocking off the streets and making all the runners who were still running stop. ... I told them all that you probably know more information then I do. ... Every corner we turned there were so many unmarked cars, police cars, ambulances, etc I kept telling my dad there is no way that I am taking the Tee home. ...

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For instance, you just know for sure that there's no monster under your bed, or that doll in your basement isn't haunted or there's simply just a rat chewing the lines in the backyard, that's why the television shut off or the lights cut off, right? ... We were a pretty regular family until one day something changed. ... He then made a loud call, I then began to cry and scream unsure to what this call would lead to. ... That's something you see on TV its make-believe there is no way that aliens could be real. my father began to cry and explained that it was his fault t...

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They told me no to the question but they then reiterated. ... But other than that there was not much there to do with spirituality that they did not do before. ... Then I asked why their marriage is a good one. ... Since they had no family in the states, they had to come up with their own identity. ... Like any other relationship, there is work to be done. ...

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So I then laughed and asked how much tickets were going for back then, once again my mother called me metiche. ... But, I knew that there was little or no communication from my parents towards any of us about their past. ... There we had neighbors all around us. ... I had no curfew. My sisters were furious and so my parents had no choice but to allow them to stay out later. ...

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These youths are homeless through no choice but of their own. ... n 25% were born to a mother under 17 years of age. n 50% were victims of physical or sexual abuse. ... If a runner is sexually abused then there is other treatment that the individual needs and that person can not get that treatment if they are in the jailing system... Flowers also thinks that female runaways need more attention and working out there problem more then runaway males. ...

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Sometimes you won't fit in with the other children because you have no idea what there talking about. ... Girls, Drugs/Alcohol, and parties were the BIG three no no's. ... Girls, Drugs/Alcohol, and parties were the big three no no's with my parents. ... The only parties I could have attended were the ones where my parents were there or one of there best Friends. ... Girls and parties were a no from my parents but I sort of made an exception. ...

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There is no reason that so many Americans today should be out of shape, as well as spend hundreds of dollars a year on fitness facilities, trainers and other equipment. ... Fruits and vegetables are always better snacks then Little Debbie's and even better than the so called 'no fat' snacks such as Snack Wells brand snacks, not to mention that they cost at least one half the price. ... Women were all suppose to look and be fit, but not have any athletic talent. ... There are now more women's sports being broadcast on the television now then ever before. ... When a person i...

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There was no television in his house; television did not come to Portugal until the 1960s. There were no restrictions on him as far as when he could go to the tavern and listen to the radio provided that he had the time to do so. Politics was a forbidden subject where he was from and no political campaigns were made, therefore there was no information about political campaigns on the radio or newspaper. ... Back then the religious leaders were considered a part of authority; most people were afraid of them and did not necessarily respect them. ... There is a better understanding, and is no l...

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There were so many people in each truck that there was no room to sit down. ... I tried to see where my father went, but there were too many people and I lost him in the crowd. ... It was freezing cold in those barracks; we had no sheets to cover ourselves with, and no pillows to sleep on. ... No words were spoken, we just stared at each other, until slowly his eyes closed, and his body became limp. ... As soon as I got my strength back, I went back to the apartment I used to live in to see if my parents were there. ...

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While sitting in the living room, there were no lights on but enough light from outside came in, though it was getting darker as if it were about to rain. ... I had no idea what was wrong with her. I then spoke to her, my voice was trembling and shaky. ... My brother and I were asked to write him letters, I am not sure why. ... I then began to think that maybe there was something I could of done to make him still be here. ...

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There were still many things going wrong. ... There were also financial problems in Mexico. " By 1981 decreased demand and lower prices for petroleum helped create an economic crisis in Mexico. ... There were a lot of requirements that you had to meet to be eligible. ... She made a few trips there because every time something had to go wrong weather they were missing a paper or assaulted and robbed. ... They had no problem getting through immigration and naturalization checks. ...

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They collected data by first giving a one-hour individual interview, then a one-hour focus group interview, then a follow-up questions interview with each participant via phone that lasted about 30-40mins (Bryan 2). ... Their study also found that there is no difference between the mother-headed family and the traditional family when it came to the supervision, control, or the dissatisfaction of their children's behavior (Badger 153, 154). ... Their results were clear: there were no disadvantages for the children in any of the categories studied (Predrag 1). ... If the student had lit...

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What were my rights? ... The answer to this question is easy; I was not getting hit as much as my two older sisters were. ... No, I put that the wrong way. ... Erika stated laughing as if there were no tomorrow. ... I opened the door; my mom was sitting there in the dark next to her window. ...

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Greedy families would then arrange another marriage for their sons in order to obtain another dowry from another bride's family. ... Much has changed since then, with there being less emphasis on marrying for family prestige and increased focus on marrying for personal happiness. ... It is unfortunate that back then, what was known as shell-shock was dismissed as something that a man had to get over on his own and move on, with no attempts to diagnose it as a medical disorder. No medical recognition meant there were no treatment programs available, and it was the families that suffered ...

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Greedy families would then arrange another marriage for their sons in order to obtain another dowry from another bride's family. ... Much has changed since then, with there being less emphasis on marrying for family prestige and increased focus on marrying for personal happiness. ... It is unfortunate that back then, what was known as shell-shock was dismissed as something that a man had to get over on his own and move on, with no attempts to diagnose it as a medical disorder. No medical recognition meant there were no treatment programs available, and it was the families that suffered ...

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Both my grandfather and my mother said that there were no real limits on their T.V. watching except that they couldn't watch it during homework time. They said that the reasons for not having limits on what to watch was because there were no violent or profane shows on back then. ... She also kept control on what we were watching, because there were violent and inappropriate things on the T.V. at this time. ... My grand father said that he listened to Billy Graham on the radio frequently and he thinks that religious leaders at the time were very dynamic, great speakers and there was no...

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There is no one group of people to blame for these changes. ... These behaviors were accepted, but if a woman got pregnant, and then there was proof that intercourse was happening which was not expectable. ... If they were engaged and were having sex then it was not so bad. ... There were fewer problems with youth. ... There is no loyalty like there was in t...

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By the early 1800s, a nationwide tax assessment revealed that there were near six hundred thousand dwellings in the United States, and by the 1850s, there were well over three million. ... As spoken by Thomas Jefferson's secretary, Albert Gallatin, "We have no villages in America," instead American farmers' homes were "scattered all over the country.... Brick and stone homes were a rare sight, and were only really used in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey for the richer families; this was in agreement with German tradition, an ethic group that settled there. ... T...

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When this happened, the family would split up according to the other male powers, and there may be as many new familae as there were men with families in the household. ... A woman in the Roman family household had absolutely no authority. ... In Ancient Rome, there were two general types of marriages. ... These words were a chant, and were the same for all brides a grooms. The bride would say "Quando tu Gaius, ego Gaia"(When and where you are Gaius, I then and there am Gaia.) ...

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