Word: brotherism
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...Love you. They kiss you and hug you when you need them. I had my mom's boyfriend for a while, but they broke up." Now Megan lives with just her mother and older brother in Culver City, California...
...great charm of Greetings from Bury Park lies in the everyday details of Manzoor's coming of age in a home that will never be home for his mum and dad. His mother, when he was young, cut the grass with a pair of scissors, while his brother slept on a hospital trolley bed, and the others all slept on the floor. His father got up at 7 a.m. and dressed for work even after he had been laid off by the local Vauxhall car plant. As for Saf, we meet him wearing pajamas under his trousers so he doesn...
Wilson also benefited from the advice of his older brother Jon, a right-handed pitcher who was a 27th-round pick of the Texas Rangers...
...That's because back then, she was the highest-paid woman in Siwa, earning more than $250 a month - more than most local men - as the star employee of Siwa Womens' Native Artisanship Development Initiative. The company was the brainchild of Cairo entrepreneur Laila Neamatalla who, together with her brother, leading environmentalist Mounir Neamatalla, have adopted a unique approach in their effort to plug Siwa into the global economy - the heritage hotels and local industries they have built are based largely on the skills, materials and traditions of the Siwa community...
...kept behind closed doors or entirely concealed under flowing robes during rare ventures into town. The fact that they outnumber men in this conservative patriarchal society has made marriage the key to a woman's independence - unlucky was the girl who remained a spinster in her father's or brother's home, humbly tending to the needs of the other men and women in the family...