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Fahey came from a different world. The youngest of six children in a close-knit middle-class Irish family, Fahey lost her mother to lung cancer when she was nine. In 1986, when Fahey was 20, her father died of leukemia. About the same time, the psychotherapist she trusted and confided in was killed in an automobile accident...
Birmingham's foray into the language of love is just one example of what many see as the changing face of ethnicity in Boston's close-knit neighborhoods...
...enrollees--in order to spread costs over a wide enough base to stay viable. That means attracting more companies, and even in Minnesota the idea is too radical to prompt more than a kind of nervous interest. Then too, Minneapolis-St. Paul is somewhat unique because of its close-knit business community and well-educated work force. So far, the only feeler from out of state about establishing a similar plan has come from Des Moines, Iowa...
...those who live there, Bridgeport is a close-knit working-class neighborhood redolent of the 1950s. Plaster madonnas adorn people's front lawns, plastic Easter bunnies perch in picture windows at this time of year, and on Sundays families attend Mass at the Irish, Italian and Croatian churches where their grandparents were married. Bridgeport is a place where one can still see precinct captains and aldermen of the 11th Ward drinking at Schaller's Pump, and where sauerkraut soup is still served at a diner not far from the home of Chicago's legendary Boss, Richard J. Daley...
Keating now lives in Phoenix, Arizona, sheltered by a close-knit clan: his wife Mary Elaine, six children and 29 grandchildren. House hopping between his children's homes like a visiting relative, Keating recently left the villa belonging to one daughter and son-in-law and moved into the more modest home of another of his children in a working-class Phoenix suburb, a Gulliver at rest in a granddaughter's cramped bedroom...