Word: loraine
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...powerful aspiration and a surprising one, given the circumstances of my upbringing. Except for an uncle who'd spent a year in college, no one else in my family had even gone past high school. Being from Lorain, Ohio, made it even more difficult for me to envision the life my mother had in mind for me. My gritty hometown, situated on Lake Erie, was known for producing streetcar tracks, ships and the resulting orange clouds spewing from its smokestacks. There, manual labor usually trumped education...
...sometimes unexpectedly--return favors to those we care about, I gave back to my mother some of what she had so lovingly and freely given me. Through her, my world opened up with a vividness I couldn't have imagined as a 15-year-old in Lorain. And through me, I'm gratified to say, my mother finally had the public life she'd always wanted. --As told to Michelle Lodge
...better scenes in this movie is an argument between the three over whose son is on top during sex. Pina Lunetti (Sophie Lorain) is also entertaining, if only for the word that her first name closely resembles in Italian...
...enforcers are coming across gigantic stashes of ecstasy in places where it was rarely seen. E comes as tablets or capsules, and since December, Ohio authorities have seized 25,000 pills in Columbus and 200 more in rural Lorain County. In January some 30 people were arrested in New Orleans for distributing the drug. Two weeks ago in Providence, R.I., a seven-month investigation into ecstasy dealing ended with the arrest of 23. In bigger cities, the trade has exploded. In December the U.S. Customs Service discovered 100 lbs. of ecstasy shipped from France to the FedEx headquarters in Memphis...