Word: grow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interviews, nonheterosexual parents and their children reveal the hardships and joys of being different. In many cases, struggle brings its own rewards. Says Judith Stevenson: "We live in a kind of family that isn't shown very often on television or spoken about in Sunday schools. Our children grow up knowing that it's O.K. to be different, and I can't help but believe that this knowledge makes them better people...
...showcase the contenders. But even this tiny stumble turned out for the best. Bush had a reason to avoid beauty contests for the next two years and a handy reference for lowering expectations. He remained extremely disciplined in interviews, telling the stories about how he didn't want to grow up to be President, he wanted to be Willie Mays, keeping his famous temper in check, turning the other cheek...
...given the approaching holiday, am I thinking of fathers and their unreachable, unfathomable greatness? Fathers and sons; father knows best; life with father. Farther and farther away they grow, not only when they die and are sunk for good but in life too. Big Daddy. Daddy Long Legs. For Father's Day, to be on the safe side, better order extra extra large...
Martin is an example of a person who persevered and worked hard to attain his dreams. But most important, he and singers Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are examples of the duality of cultures that Hispanic youngsters face every day as they grow up in a bilingual and bicultural environment. I'm glad that my kids have several role models. VIVIAN ALEJANDRO Tucson, Ariz...
...received for her 13th birthday. She wrote in an early entry, "I hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me." She had no idea how widely that support and comfort would extend, though her awareness of the power in her hands seemed to grow as time passed. One year before her death from typhus in the Bergen-Belsen camp, she wrote, "I want to be useful or give pleasure to people around me who yet don't really know me. I want to go on living even after my death...