The parents were also denied the chance to hold the boy, who was born with a beating heart, before he died.

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When the dinghy capsized in the River Swale, the boy grasped hold of a branch in the fast-flowing water.

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Like the Dutch boy holding his finger in the dike, Shultz strained to hold back those who believed that the economy had changed to such an extent that the free market no longer worked.

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Actually, she doesn't believe Grimoaldo is ruthless enough to kill the boy, and gambles that her outrageous demand might put the marriage on hold.

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The tumors came back with a vengeance, and cancer -- and its treatments -- hollowed my big, beautiful, lush-coated boy to a weak, wobbly, 85 pound skeleton covered in clumps of patchy fur, and unable hold his bowels or bladder.

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