Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...English and some Russian; she aspires to become a tourist guide after graduating from a business college that specializes in hotel management. Says Maria: "We hope our daughter will have a better life, because she's educated-not just a worker like us." Bozena, who has a steady boyfriend, may be in line for an apartment of her own. Her parents put her on the waiting list of the municipal housing authority when she was eleven, hoping that she would get an apartment when she turned...
When the woman who has been raped tries to reintegrate herself into society, she encounters enormous obstacles. Her fear can expand until it defines her activities. This fear prevents her from venturing forth at night, from trusting her boyfriend or even herself. In addition the woman is made to bear society's guilt. It is her fault that she was sleeping in her bed when a man broke in or that she walked home from the library alone. This guilt is internalized and may become inwardly directed anger. Society's conspiracy of silence does nothing to prevent that anger. Instead...
...some of the women, however, the everpresent danger never seemed normal. Rainford, how grew up in Dorchester, said she spent as much time at home or with her boyfriend as possible. "The guys sort of resented me for that," she said, "but both I and my parents were extremely nervous...
Susan, 29, a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard, knew her boyfriend had a herpes infection and consulted her gynecologist about the safety of having intercourse. The doctor reassured her that herpes was only contagious if her partner had festering sores. Susan slept with her friend, who had no obvious signs, and within a week got herpes...
WHEN THE police arrived, they stood outside the door and identified themselves. Within seconds a figure came charging out the door--the new boyfriend. Behind him stood the man with the gun. "He started to raise it, and I got ready to squeeze one off. But my partner got in the way, and he squeezed one off instead." Added his partner, "All I could see was the barrel of that shotgun--looked this big." Obligingly, one points to the hole in the wall where the bullet hit. Then the gunman fled upstairs--a few minutes later they talked him down...