Word: companionism
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...legs can't hang over; I have to draw them up. For this reason and all the obvious ones, I get no sleep. Caroline sleeps in fits, waking to vomit occasionally (a usual aftershock of concussions), to tinkle, to cry for Mommy or for Piggie, her constant companion who, unfortunately, is at Grandma's, equally desolate. Caroline hugs the red Spinners bear as tightly as she can, but it is lacking as a substitute...
...John Coltrane on Ballads, his classic 1961 album. Hers is a deliciously moody collection of still-fresh standards like It's Easy to Remember, in which Allyson's slender, sunny voice is dappled with dark shadows of rue. Perfect for late-night listening, with or without a like-minded companion...
...faced, irrevocably pleasant simulacrum of a boy, comes to appreciate David's virtues; he has no flaws, except that he is not "orga" (organic) but "mecha" (mechanical)--and not Martin. From a closet she retrieves an old supertoy, a stuffed bear named Teddy, who becomes David's most faithful companion. Soon David is calling her Mommy. Bereft of her only natural child, she cradles this artificial one. Bathed in Nativity light, mother and child melt into a Pieta...
...from Morris John Kuper Jr., who told investigators to check out activities in a parking lot a block away from the Murrah Federal Building about an hour before it was blown apart. Kuper later testified that he had seen a man resembling McVeigh walking with a dark-haired, muscular companion--a description that matches those by other witnesses of a man who came to be known as John Doe 2. Investigators eventually concluded the mystery accomplice didn't exist and tried to disprove some of the reported sightings. Kuper, for instance, was discredited by prosecutors for not having come forward...
Critics point out that the Mexican maquilas have drained jobs from the U.S. side. Allen says those jobs were leaving anyway. And even though the Rio Grande Valley remains one of the nation's poorest regions, a lucrative new companion industry--logistics and technical support--has helped boost job growth 7% last year in the McAllen area, the best in Texas. The 2,000 mostly American maquila professionals who cross the bridge daily into Reynosa bring in $1 million a year in tolls alone for the city of McAllen. "If Reynosa is not doing well," says city manager Mike Perez...