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VOA: special.2011.01.31

I was walking down a suburban street seeing other people's children and I stopped to see one in a carriage and I thought it was a sweet child, but I was looking for my child in his face.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

"For me,I think it was more difficult because I dealt with the guilt of missing my child, having him so far away, then always trying to get home on the weekends to see him, as well as keeping up with school and remaining active,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

"My father," Beatrice said weakly, "why did you do this terrible thing to your own child?"

VOA: special.2009.05.30

And Thanksgiving also, in my early days when I was a child, the kids would all get to play, maybe we hadn't seen each other for a while.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Still,she says her books reflect the Nancy Drew stories that she read as a child: "Things that I read as a kid keep cropping up in my own work whether I realize it or not.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

"As a mother my heart went out to all of them. I cannot imagine what it would feel like to know that your child was in prison, for now 100 days, with very little contact between you and them.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

His new book, The Council of Dads: My Daughters,My Illness and the Men Who Could Be Me, I started making a list of six men from all parts of my life, beginning when I was a child and stretching through today.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19