So she drove him home. If my brother had driven home from the bar that night, his number would have been up.

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Others are driven from home by strains within their families: by abusive, alcoholic fathers or by the consequences of parental divorce.

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The paper mill worker had driven the children away from their home on the morning of 12 July after agreeing to split up with his wife, Ruth, who he had been in a relationship with for 15 years.

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Brooklyn Burgess, 18, got off the ship scanning the crowd for father and brother, who had driven from their Carthage, Mississippi, home to get them and bring them home.

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