Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...North Webster. Destiny's Child blares on the CD player, and between trips to the bulging buffet table, two black girls teach the others how to get down to the music. Junior Sarah Budzinski gets a plate of cake smashed in her face in early celebration of her 17th birthday tomorrow. After dinner, Natalie's mom braids their hair, brown and blond alike, into cornrows. "Whenever my mom used to braid my hair," says senior Ann Barnes, "she'd say the more it hurts, the prettier it is." A minute later, her light, silky hair in Ms. Rodriguez's firm...
Basbagill left without buying anything but ended up calling Haynie a few hours later to inquire about purchasing a gift for a friend whose birthday party he was attending the same night...
...show. He walks over to the curb to talk to Jason, who is sitting on a short purple-framed bike, one foot on the ground and the other on a pedal. A bunch of girls on the corner sing, at full-throttle to no one in particular, "Happy birthday dear whoever." Then a short, stocky one jumps into the middle of the gang and, turning in circles and waving her slice, chants, "I got pizza and you can't have...
ITHACA, N.Y.--Watching his football team lose a seemingly insurmountable 13-point advantage over Cornell with less than 4:00 remaining in the game was not the way Harvard Coach Tim Murphy wanted to celebrate his birthday Saturday afternoon...
...These North Carolina grandparents tuck Tiana into bed at night and make her breakfast every morning; they pay for her school and her doctors. Instead of traveling and seeing friends, as they expected to do in their autumn years, they are back in the business of going to birthday parties and pta meetings. For the past seven years, since Tiana's mother left the baby with a sitter and never picked her up (her father moved out two years later), parenting has been their life. "I cried for three days when we knew that this was going to happen," recalls...