As long as I paid my medical school fees every year, my family would never know I wasn't attending any classes.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

Missus Compson, the mother in the family, says of God's actions: "It can't be simply to.hurt me.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

And it's like you don't give friends or family gifts, you give your boyfriend or your girlfriend.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

"They don't have a country. They don't have their family structure here to support them.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

"I don't really do a whole lot. I normally just spend time with family, go out to eat,hang out, wait for the ball to drop on TV."

VOA: special.2009.12.28

"I'm part Chinese. But I have red hair and freckles so I don't look very Chinese, but I did grow up in a very traditional Chinese American family.

VOA: special.2011.06.10

When I was nearly twenty years old, they insisted that I learn a profession even though we were a rich family, and I really didn't have to work at all.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

I don't want to use my family name because I shall probably have several scandals while I live and I don't want to cause them any trouble until I am famous, when nobody will mind.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Barrows didn't have family support to help her through her challenging college years, so she found help in other places.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

Like family members of many of the internees, Ebel didn't learn about that chapter of her father's life for many years.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

It wasn't easy for a young, single mother with only a high school education to provide for her family.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

"I had family members, I had people in my community, that told me, 'You can't be an astronaut."

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

But even those that didn't do seem to tell a story: a family laden with packages arrives for Christmas at grandma and grandpa's;

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

But Boit wasn't ready to settle down on the family farm,and still isn't.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22