That being said, within three days of the accident, my niece walked out of the hospital having successfully undergone surgery for a complex fracture with the prospect of an astonishingly quick recovery despite the severity of the break.

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Robert Kennedy was elected to the Senate with few ties to his adopted home state, but his niece's New York roots run deep.

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He and his wife of 22 years, Claudia, have no children, and the cause became important to them after their niece was born with trisomy 13, a syndrome caused by an extra 13th chromosome.

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Fleming's two great nephews, Robert and Diggory Laycock, will show off giant versions of the stamps outside the post office in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, which they recently bought with Fleming's great-niece Rose Grimond.

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The most potently written character is Tina, Juliana's repressed spinster niece, inhabited here with great presence by Susan Graham.

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Shorr, the niece of the late and much-admired antiques dealer Amy Perlin, explains that along with her charisma and plainspokenness, her aunt was known for her farmhouse tables.

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