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...foreign commerce bank, Deak National Bank, were not included in the filings. Said the younger Deak: "The damage we have suffered from maliciousness in that report to a very great extent caused the downfall of a very fine firm and the damage to a very fine man--my dad...
...what words mean and what the directions in their work books say." Sevalstad takes pride in the Thanksgiving themes tacked to one wall. Wrote Vance Voldseth, age 10: "I am thankful for the Yamaha three-wheeler ... I am thankful for Fred [a calf] ... I am thankful for Mom and Dad...
...Mack had held a lot of jobs to cobble together his grubstake. He moved to Wild Horse to raise wheat and rear five children. He and his wife were headed toward divorce. One son would grow up to farm on his own: the other would throw in with his dad. The three daughters would chart a course that would keep them close by yet broaden them through association with singers of the country stripe. Thereby hung the tale...
...care aide who preferred not to be identified to protect family members' feelings, had always been favored over her elder sister, she says, as the daughter who behaved best. When her parents became ill, she sold her house and moved with her husband and their kids into Mom and Dad's home to care for them. As Mom's dementia worsened, she often refused to take her pills. When Deborah insisted, Mom whined, "Deborah's being mean to me." No one in the family took it seriously except Deborah's elder sister. After years of staying in the background...
...many families, when legitimate disputes break out over how to care for Mom or Dad, old issues of parental hurts and sibling rivalry are likely to be lurking under the surface. One of the hardest obstacles for siblings to overcome is the unequal burden of caregiving. With few exceptions, one sibling in a family gets to be--or gets stuck with being--the primary caregiver. Whether that means stopping by Dad's to run errands, nursing an Alzheimer's patient in the spare bedroom or responding to late-night calls from the nursing home, one adult child usually does...