Last Christmas, this is who was at my table: my then-boyfriend, my mother, my son, my son's father, his girlfriend, her parents and daughter and an assortment of close family friends. We had a blast.

去年圣诞节，有这些人坐在我的餐桌边：我的现任男友，我母亲，我儿子，我儿子的父亲和他的女朋友，这个女朋友的父母亲以及她女儿，还有一些亲密朋友。

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After grandpa passed away, she had to listen to my uncle, her eldest son, fulfilled her duty as daughter, wife, and mother; yet as a person, she remained little noticed.

经历了一生的艰辛，奶奶尽到了作为女儿、妻子和母亲的全部责任，但作为一个人，她却很少被别人关注过。

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And as a single mother of a daughter, 21, and a 12-year-old son, she has learned plenty about juggling work and family.

她独自抚养21岁的女儿和12岁的儿子，对于如何平衡工作和家庭，钟彬娴总结出了一套经验。

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They are tracing the same patterns, walking through the same roles, struggling to work out the same sets of relations: husband and wife, father and mother, son and daughter who will become, in their time, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers.

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Franklin, who had survived breast cancer, was married and the mother of a grown son and daughter.

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By the 1970s, Serlin was a wife and mother of two--a son, Brad, and a daughter, Cindy.

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