She knelt before an image of Mary, the mother of God and asked her to pray to her son Jesus Christ. ... After the conversation they worked things and decided not to have an abortion. ... 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 isolated unit in the hospital and being on an oxygen tank for 3 months. ... After traveling through the city we finally made it to our hotel stopping to unload all of our bags. ... The week before the march for life I was thinking ab...

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Soon after this encounter Abadgi senior wife became ill and died. ... This after Nnaife went off to sea after his former employers the Meers left to go off to fight Hitler. ... But after they where feed properly they were fine. ... Nnu hears news that her father is dying and he wants to see her before he dies. ... Before coming home Nnaife gets a new wife on is only sixteen. ...

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You act like you haven't done that before. ... After talking to her mother for about twenty minutes, Sam hung up the phone and retreated to bed. ... After she finished cleaning up her little sister's mess, Sam decided to soak in the tub for a while. ... After she got out of the tub and dried off, she got dressed. ... After about three rings, Sam's mother picked up the phone. ...

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This makes his father say something he's never said before. ... Before Dee seemed to hate her sister. After the house where both of the girls and her mother used to be live before. ... Right after his voice brakes and looks at his dad standing in the crowd. ... After leaving for so long with her mother she deserved those quilts. ...

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After the proposal has been accepted, the groom's family goes to the bride's home and has a small ceremony of acceptance. ... One week before the start of the ceremonies, a separate ceremony is held at the bride's house called the Ubton. ... Before the groom enters the building or area where the ceremony is being held, the sisters of the bride stop the groom and demand money. ... After the mother, the guests congratulate and greet the newly weds and dinner is served. ... Before the bride enters the groom's house some people wash her feet in milk or sacrifice a chicken or a ...

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As Bane explains, some of the female-headed households, who are in poverty, were already in poverty before the family structure was broken. ... People do not know to the full extent the woman has to suffer after divorce. ... After the break up they have to find a decent job to support themselves. ... The father is most likely not to help the mother and the children after he leaves the family. ... Most of the time the father leaves because he has lost his job and at times the family is already in poverty before the father leaves. ...

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Before the story begins, O"Connor provides the reader with an epigraph. ... After driving down the road a while, the family passes a cotton field with five or six graves right in the middle of it. ... After eating at Red Sammy's, they continue their journey to Florida. ... O"Connor continues to throw hints of the family's fate in front of the reader after Pitty Sing causes Bailey to flip the car. As theygather themselves back together after the accident, instead of being frightened, the children begin to joke and play about their situation. ...

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Before the story begins, O"Connor provides the reader with an epigraph. ... After driving down the road a while, the family passes a cotton field with five or six graves right in the middle of it. ... After eating at Red Sammy's, they continue their journey to Florida. ... O"Connor continues to throw hints of the family's fate in front of the reader after Pitty Sing causes Bailey to flip the car. As they gather themselves back together after the accident, instead of being frightened, the children begin to joke and play about their situation. ...

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Part 3- Babushka After a long train ride, I arrive in Zalesie where I see Babushka for the first time in many years. ... Part 5- Montréal and Rockville After a plan ride to Sweden and a long boat ride to Halifax , we arrived at the large city of Montréal. ... He was very upset but invited me and my family to celebrate Chanukah at his house before we left . ... After a morning of lessons I made my way to the lunch where I met my first new friend Miriam. ... After a few months my father decided to buy a deli , where Miriam and I worked after school and on weekends. ...

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Two years later, shortly after my fourth birthday, she married a man named Joey. ... The summer after my family moved, I went to visit my mother before I had to go back home to Lake Village, Arkansas, and begin my junior year of high school. ... The characteristics that I lacked before the downfall of my bond with my mother are now present and visible in my everyday life. ... Lilly wouldn't eat her food even after my father told her several times to. After the third time, he lost his temper and yelled at my sister. ...

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Before I went to grab his hand, he started breathing harder and harder as if he knew it was me. ... My brother told me that our father had passed away a few hours after we left the hospital the night before. ... My life had changed immediately after my brother told me the bad news. ... After the funeral and burial, the whole family met up at my father's house. ... As we walked through the house, I felt closer to my father because I had never been in his house ever before. ...

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So we settled in and ate and caught up on as much as possible before we all had to get to sleep. ... Well lets just say it didn't take to long before I got the gist of the business. ... After a few months they decided to off him in an alleyway after beating him to a pulp. ... Before to long we had to close the bakery and figure a way to get food on the table. ... But after a couple of months I was the new bartender. ...

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As I stated before the children tend to blame themselves for the problems with their parents. ... He had been a model student and son before this divorce happened. After his parents divorced though, he went through a radical change. ... Overall males seem to have a more difficult time adjusting to the change in family structure after divorce. ... As I said before the internet was very useful. ...

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The year before Halie was born you could easily say I was a wild child. ... All I know is if I had continued on that path, it was only a matter of time before I either ended up dead in an ally somewhere or I would have died from alcohol poisoning. ... After calling my boyfriend's phone a hundred times, it felt like, I finally got him on the phone. ... After the life support was pulled out of Skyler, my boyfriend had admitted to everything and said that he slammed her head on the coffee table and after she had passed out from the pain he shook her to try and wake her up. ... I buried Skyl...

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Not all girls lived happily ever after. I remembered coming home with tears in my eyes one day after school. ... Life is not just getting married and living happily ever after. ... An elderly neighbour helped to look after her daughter. Before noon, she would rush home to prepare lunch for her daughter before leaving the home again to collect recyclable items from the rubbish dump. ...

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When he was drunk, her father beat her mother and her mother would beat her after that, so violence was just passed on. ... Rosa Lee first got introduced in drug trafficking before she even considered taking drugs. ... After nineteen years of selling it, Rosa Lee finally gave in and tried heroin herself. ... Rosa Lee even kept on doing drugs after someone injected her undeliberately into a nerve in her neck and she almost died from the consequences. ... "Even before Rosa Lee reaches the door to her second floor apartment, it flies open and Patty sticks out her head. ...

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After the loss of your father, your family is left impoverished. ... Because Eva grew up part of the poor class, she was always despised by the oligarchy, even after she became the most dynamic woman in Argentine history. ... She would take in everything important, as she had once done before when she was a young girl with her mother's "guests". ... She made them feel loved unlike any other political figure had ever done before. ... At fifteen, she moved away to follow her dreams, and before her death, she was able to make those dreams a definite reality, and yet one thing remained ...

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After countless doctors' visits and experimental drugs, we have finally got the situation under control. ... After seeing her sitting beside my hospital bed watching me throw up and cry, I saw such a strong love, and I knew I needed to be better after this. ... I would look at other people and decide if I liked them or not before I even talked to them or got to know them. ... Now I feel as if I am a little more open, and I don't let my judgements' get in the way of me talking to those who I may not have talked to before. ... After these past years' experiences, we have beco...

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For four months he would not even touch the girl, but after much pleading from Roha, a Namakarma was performed and the baby was named Reva ("Society and Culture"). ... After the ceremony, she was taken to her husband's home, where she was expected to care for Jains" mother and father. ... Never feeling wanted like this before, Reva was overcome by love for her new husband and his family. ... Her fate would soon change after seven months of marriage. ... Jains told Reva of all the jobs she must have completed before the day was done and then vanished into the fog and rain of the mornin...

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I was concerned about what was I going to do after the baby was born? ... Two days after the great news, I made an appointment with my OB-GYN doctor. ... I'm glad my natural instinct was always active telling me "protect and cared for your baby before and above all", and that's exactly what I did! ... I can tell you, that after the third month after conception, when my body kind of got used to have you in my womb, I enjoyed every single moment of my pregnancy! ... One of the qualities that is going to help me be successful as a parent is my ability and desire of always pr...

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'What-if he is dying,' 'What-if he can't be the same as before,' 'What-if I lose him.' ... Even after the first day of the accident we had to travel to Chapel Hill to see my dad on a regular basis. ... After analyzing the extent of just how bad the accident had been, we were not sure how possible this goal would be able to achieve. ... This game was the biggest game of the season because it was the day before the July 4th holiday. ... After two surgeries to repair the skin on both of his arms, he was released from the hospital nearly a month after the...

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After Bing drowned at the beach Rose says, "My mother poured out tea sweetened with sugar into the teacup, and threw this into the sea. ... In her palm was a ring of watery blue sapphire, a gift from her mother, who had died many years before. ... The following quoted supports this idea: "And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me-because I had never seen that face before. ... After all these years, it can finally be let go." ... This novel taught me things about other people that I didn't know before. ...

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After Christmas, Maya and Bailey's father appears without notification. ... Before Maya and Bailey had a chance to settle in, Father Bailey announced that he was leaving them behind for a second time. ... After that Mr. ... Freeman reminds Maya that she had liked what they did before. Maya tells him they had only been playing before. ...

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There weren't any hospitals nearby in the village, so a day before my mom was due, my parents travelled to the city to give birth to me. ... My older sister was very jealous because before I was born my parents used to pay attention to her because she was the only girl, after I was born I took all the attention. ... I was a healthy baby, after weaning I started to drink milk from a regular cup; I also started to eat eggs, cheese, and soup. ... An example of that is having a sexual relationship before you are married. ...

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He had said to her over a phone call the night before her big trip, after a very long shift at work, "limner, (her name before she legally changed it when she came to the states) mija, I need you here, here next to me. ... Grandma was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and my fun and outgoing Grandma seemed to deteriorate before our eyes. ...

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