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...others appear wary of falling, he zips across the waves with abandon. "I want to be a pro surfer," he says later during a game of ping-pong, in which he at first pretends never to have played the game, and then begins swiping balls into the corners. Dad Steve is not ruling it out: "I think he's surfing better than Michael was at the same...
...adoption process, some of the efforts weren't successful, and it continued for a time," says Jane's law partner and friend Jack McKay. "But when the opportunity came along to have not just one but two children, they took both babies without blinking." Roberts is a hands-on dad who plays a mean game of Candyland and enjoys trick-or-treat duty on Halloween. "We used to have hobbies," Jane tells colleagues, "but we do kids now." They are active at Church of the Little Flower, a Catholic congregation in a well-heeled section of Bethesda, Md. Jane...
...Scoobie, the dog, roused Mom when I arrived, and she got up to watch the last three innings with me, and to do some catching up. I was on the couch Dad used to use to watch NESN (he died three years ago), and Mom was on hers. ?They?re going good,? she said. ?First place...
...granddaughter (who insisted I sign her Junie B. Jones book, even though I demurred that I had nothing to do with writing it). Mrs. Donahue, my old doubles partner in the city tennis tournament, dropped by. (I had to sign her book ?Bobby? Sullivan.) Old customers of my dad?s at the Union National Bank and my mom?s at the Jeanne D?Arc Credit Union-unknown to me, but wanting to be remembered to Mom-showed up. High school friends. Strangers. A guy who worked security for the Patriots who never took his sunglasses off and wanted his book...
...Although," she adds, "undeniably, morals are drawn." But she doesn't make it easy. In Goblet, the good-hearted Cedric Diggory dies for no reason. In Phoenix, we learn that Harry's dad, whom he idealized, had been an arrogant bully. People aren't good and bad by nature; they change and transform and struggle. As Dumbledore tells Harry, "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Granted, we know Harry will not succumb to anger and evil. But we never stop feeling that he could. (Interestingly, although Rowling is a member...