Some linguists, though, instead classify them as separate languages within a language family, analogous to the French, Spanish and Italian languages within the Romance language family.

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He depicts the gang violence, family burdens, authoritarian schooling, broken romance, and grinding poverty that proved to be the crucible of his clear-eyed, poetic artistry.

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My own mother, a beautiful, uneducated woman from a working-class New York family, and my father, a young southern man from a poor sharecropping family who entered the Marines at the age of 17, represented far more to each other than just romance.

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