Since Elian first appeared off the Florida coast in November, clinging to an inner tube with his companions and his mother long-since drowned, his story has grown more and more bizarre.
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The 'Swiss Miss' burst onto the scene at the tender age of 16 in 1997, winning three grand slams, including Wimbledon and taking over at world number one, guided by her mother and long-time coach Melanie Molitor.
He emphasized that his mother had long kept from him the knowledge of his Jewish forbearers in order to protect him from the fate of her father in turn by the Nazis in a concentration camp in North Africa.
Recently, Vicky apparently decided that her mother had lived long enough, and she began withholding food from Polly.
The conviction and sentencing came just days after the girl's mother changed her long-standing denials and testified Monday that she had seen her husband attack their daughter on the night Shafilea died.
Many of them flow from the chest pains that suddenly blight Harry's planned tryst with Marin at her mother's Long Island beach house, from Erica's stunned reluctance to nurse him, and from his outlandish shock, more appropriate to an encounter with the Medusa, when he stumbles into Erica's bedroom and sees her naked.
It's unclear why the Russians were eavesdropping on the mother or for how long.
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His father was murdered when he was eight months old, his mother started drinking not long after.
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Not long after her mother had also driven away, he had rapped on the back door.
They recall his mother's life-long objections to any attempt to track down the lost P-38.
Tietou may be a pain to his long-suffering mother, but his misbehavior is just the first stirring of a rebellious spirit.
We've long suspected that mother-infant pairs got some social benefit from the male friends, but this benefit had never before been documented.
In the fall of 1958, he broke up with Joyce Johnson and moved into a house with his mother in North Port, Long Island.
From the therapist's point of view, these thoughts do not mean that the child is in danger, as long as the mother expresses distress about them.
If the Queen lives as long as her mother, and ministers remain highly sensitive to sharing out the baubles, we may end up with many more cities.
That echoes an international consensus that maternal deaths are preventable in most cases and that maternal morbidity can be foreseen and addressed long before the mother gives birth.
Veronica's mother, Ashley, faces a long recovery after being paralyzed in her lower body and miscarrying after the shooting.
Hamlet famously tells his mother that if she acts virtuously long enough, she will one day become a virtuous person.
I'd long suspected that my mother had wildly embellished her stories of China, and I wondered what else had been an exaggeration.
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In winter, when the sky got dark early and Mother worried about her making the long commute home, Naima would sleep on my bedroom floor.
Firoza Jhabvala said Wednesday that her mother died in New York after a long illness.
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