Shanta, an abandoned woman who lives in a home for widows, is one of them.

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While it was originally presented so effectively as a rocking rhythm number that few noticed it had a storyline, now lyric and rhythm are rebalanced so that its portrait of an abandoned woman's last vestige of connection with her ex via the airwaves stays up front.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The teenage daughter of a woman who just revealed she abandoned her family 11 years ago said Thursday the disclosure has angered her and she is not eager to restart their relationship.

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James said it helped make peace with the woman she idolized but who had abandoned her.

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In another song, "Seduced and Abandoned, " Merritt assumes the guise of a woman who's been left with her newborn child by a dastardly cad, and she meditates morosely on her future.

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Leitrim county veterinary officer James Madden described it as an "extreme case" of dog hoarding and said the woman was breeding some of the animals, but also appeared to be taking in other abandoned animals at the property.

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One by one each woman parted from her companions and went to her own plot, whose boundaries were marked by an abandoned termite hill, a fallen tree, and upright boulder.

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