When I reached for one of the two glasses left on the table, Tom stopped my arm.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

"My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

"And when he left me and they told me he was going to you, Bill,I sat on my floor and cried.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18