Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Natalie Smith described her experiences as a mother in a low-income household...
Shifting her focus to the national educationalstage, Paglia also condemned forced bussing andbilingual education, saying her mother never wouldhave learned English without immersion in thelanguage...
...swollen belly that turned her streetwise walk into a waddle, Moody could attract customers. "Some men are into pregnant women," she notes dispassionately. Her second baby, Cartez, was born on July 2 nine years ago, and Vanessa was back on the street on the 4th, while her distraught mother and sister Debbie took care of the newborn. "I was still bleeding, but I was ready to date," Moody recalls. (And ready to smoke crack cocaine: four of her five babies were born with the drug in their system...
...fact, her desire to get back her five children is what spurs her on. When a caseworker brought them for a visit, Moody beamed as she fixed them bologna sandwiches. Olivia, 8, dressed in her blue-and-white school uniform, painstakingly constructed a caption for a portrait of her mother: "I miss you a lot. I want to stay with you. I love you so, so much. You are the best mom I ever...
...tall, sleekly muscular and imposingly handsome, with a clean-shaven head and sloped, piercing eyes; his cheeks, however, are rough and pocked, the result of a long-ago lupus episode (something else he prefers not to discuss). Nor is he always comfortable talking about his parents. (His mother was Nigerian and his father Brazilian; both are dead.) Seal was born in London and grew up poor. He was put up for adoption and then reclaimed by his father; at one point when Seal was in his late teens, he was homeless. Today he projects both stylishness and erudition. There...