He was telling BB the air-con in the boys' room was broken and he just couldn't stop himself.

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At the 23 week scan we knew we were having boys and painted their room blue bought clothes, cots, bedding etc and named them Jacob and Ethan.

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He sat on a stool in a cold room with other boys pasting labels onto bottles of shoe polish.

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There was no apparent Boys Club in the common room, nor did the male doctors treat the female students as less knowledgeable or hard working than our male peers.

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On a recent afternoon at his brother's one-room factory, six boys ages 11 to 16 sewed red frocks.

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He always has a smile on his face and the man was still cheering the boys as they came into the changing room because he knows how important that point was for Leeds.

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It was to be an adult trial, both boys appearing every day in the full gaze of whoever was in that room, but neither giving evidence directly to the court.

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But egalitarian did not mean equal: in mixed clubs, boys tended to charge about the place, keeping the girls out of the billiards room and hiding the table-tennis balls.

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My boys continue to migrate from their beds and their rooms to our bed, and our room.

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