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...sake of Darnum's little church, long may she live. Her elegant presence helps keep its Sunday numbers in double figures; she has a son, grandson and great grandchildren who are also regulars. A total of 11 worshipers this morning in a farming town of fewer than 300 people isn't such a bad ratio. But church chairwoman Dianne Sergeant is concerned. "The numbers are slowly dwindling," she says. "We're like many churches today: the congregations are getting older, and with that they're getting a bit smaller...
Raúl has been married to Espín, a chemical engineer who studied briefly at M.I.T., for more than 45 years. His eldest daughter Débora has Espín's nom de guerre. The couple has two other daughters and a son. Raúl talks about his eight grandchildren with great pride. He has lived in the same modest house in Havana for as long as anybody can remember. His nephews and nieces go to him for advice...
TIME: What do you want your great-grandchildren to say about...
Castro: I do not know, but you have to think about it. I believe that they will feel proud. I do not regard myself as a bad man. On the contrary. And I have seen that sometimes grandchildren are proud even of people who were...
...were "eating too much." When 4-month-old Luke cried, Andrea would try to rock him to sleep and give him a pacifier, but she would not feed him. The task of weaning the infant to a bottle fell to her elderly mother, who struggled to care for her grandchildren and her own sick husband...