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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mary K. Letourneau sat on the steps in front of her home, staring west across a glorious sunset over Puget Sound. Inside with a friend was baby Audrey Lokelani, Mary's fifth child and her first with Vili Fualaau, the teenager she has become so infamous for loving. It was a breezy summer's eve, and she could smell the fresh-cut grass on her lawn. She squinted into a blazing horizon. "I had a dream last night," she said, speaking to a neighbor. "I dreamed I was sitting here watching the sunset. And I sat there and sat there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Matter Of Hearts | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...Vili Fualaau is a rather big teen but not a muscular hulk. He has recently experimented with a mustache, and it's a little wispy. His voice has deepened, and he's now about 5 ft. 8 in. His appeal is more Leonardo DiCaprio than Ben Affleck, but mostly he's an average kid--which is to say, he's extraordinary in his own way. Born in Hawaii to parents who emigrated from Western Samoa, he loves art and music, and when strangers come by to meet him--and many, many strangers want to meet him these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Matter Of Hearts | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

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