• It was a similar story with Miss Willis, a young single mother with no family network who was looking for a home when she moved in with the couple at the age of 17.

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  • In an instant, she was a single mother with two young children.

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  • Among those not selected were a mother with three young sons who said she didn't think that she could be fair and a man who volunteers with The Second Mile, the charity that was founded by Mr. Sandusky.

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  • Her oldest child and only son, John Hancock, has a difficult relationship with his mother. (He changed his name as a young man, preferring to honor his grandfather rather than his stepfather, Frank Rinehart.) He joined the board of Hancock Prospecting at twenty-one and was seen as the heir apparent.

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  • In a statement, her family said she was "a devoted mother of two young children who will now have to grow up with just only a memory of their mum".

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  • But in densely populated favelas, where surprising as it may seem housing is expensive, and where a young woman is likely to stay with her mother after she has her own child, the new benefit still goes to the head of the household, ie, the new child's grandmother.

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  • Det Supt Steve Smith, of North Yorkshire Police, said the pedestrian was a "nice young man" who lived with his mother and sister nearby.

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  • It showed polar bear cubs in a den with their mother, with many people assuming the young animals were born and filmed in the Arctic.

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  • There is also a sub-plot about Alex's father, who fled to the West when he and his sister were young children and who re-appears in time for a reconciliation with his mother before she dies.

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  • As a young man he had happily played in chamber groups with his father on flute and his mother on violin.

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  • It's played mainly for laughs, with funny music, as if the bonds between two young children and their mother are a minor thing compared to Mom's eccentric but authentic need for fulfillment.

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  • He used the example of a mother who loses her job and then sees "a clever, young Latvian with three degrees doing the job she would like to do".

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  • One episode was based in part on Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who killed her two young sons by driving her car into a lake with them strapped inside.

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  • Look at the young immigrant wiping away a tear at the thought of the langoustines, ripe with roe, prepared by his mother back in Spain.

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  • Judge Saunter also imposed a restraining order on Gibson, but it still allows him to have contact with Grigorieva, the mother of his young daughter, Lucia.

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