Three times Ms Forna and her two sisters were sent into exile for their safety.

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Her parents, who have subsequently died, also forced her other sisters to enter into arranged marriages, she said.

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And in a resolutely unshowy comeback, Debra Winger practically backs into the movie as the sisters' mom, a stranger in another woman's household (both parents have remarried), reluctant to offer anything more holding than a smile.

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She led me into one room where her aunt and two sisters were sitting on the floor under huge duvets.

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Neighbor Jane Phelan said the twins' mother recently told her the sisters had moved out of a dormitory and into an off-campus house.

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Meanwhile, somewhere out there, the tired James Bond business traveler, and all his traveling brothers and sisters, are dumping their electronic sending-and-receiving stations into yet another security-line bin.

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He ran away to Malegaon in neighbouring Maharashtra to live with his sisters and had been working there for a fortnight when a co-worker walked into the shop with a newspaper carrying his picture.

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That would make Little Sisters fractured versions of Elizabeth, looked after by a multitude of Big Daddies, all condensed into the massive Songbird in Columbia.

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In spite of their exhaustion, in spite of the fact that they had worked themselves into a state of total fatigue, they still wanted to keep fighting on for their fellow brothers and sisters trapped in the rubble.

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