Though he had no sons to take over his businesses, his four daughters Anna, Bessie, Cissy and Doreen - named in alphabetical order the "better to remember them by, " he said - all married well.

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She was already having trouble raising two sons and had no job and no stable relationship.

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Iraqi television said Saddam had met officials on Wednesday, including his two sons, but showed no footage of the meeting.

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Ms Gill and her two sons, Oak, 18, and Daegan, 14, had no house insurance and lost most of their possessions in the fire.

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"Fathers love their sons and mine certainly did, and I had been quite sure he would say no, " von Kleist recalled.

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The woman's husband and two sons were at the convention center with no idea she was in labor, or where she had gone.

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