"I wanted to write about my journey and what had happened with losing Matthew and then this miracle that had happened to us with our new child, our two-year-old Luke, and I wanted to write that story to show people that out of despair can still come happiness, " he says.

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Helping them is our duty, it is absolutely essential that we improve their outcomes, but tearing down the whole system out of our despair at their plight will not help them.

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She was a drifter, moving in a miasma of angry despair in and out of speakeasies and other people's beds because her father had refused to let her go to college, even though she'd won a full scholarship to Sarah Lawrence, and even though he would certainly have let her brother go.

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But thousands sprang to his defense, praising his work as their beloved guidebook out of the valley of despair.

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On one side, it reads, "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope, " from Dr. King's speech, "I Have a Dream, " presented at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963.

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Pino Arlacchi, its last executive director, was eased out after an auditors' report exposed serious mismanagement, and a lot of other top staff have either departed in despair or been pushed out.

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He rejects Mr Romney's apparent contention that 47% of voters were out of reach for Republicans, which was always, when you think about it, a counsel of despair.

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Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, hopelessness and despair.

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Titania could not conceive of the way they were made, except as distillations of sadness and heartbreak and despair, since that was how she made her own poisons, shaking drops of terror out of a wren captured in her fist, or sucking with a silver straw at the tears of a dog.

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