Word: neighborly
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...great thing is because in writing my book, I was able to find my voice, a true voice that I had hidden for so long. Because as I talk about in the book I was sexually assaulted at the age of 13 by a male next-door neighbor and that incident traumatized me. I came from a dysfunctional family where my mother was a prostitute, she was a heroin addict and then my mother became infected with the HIV virus and she passed it to my baby brother and they both died from the AIDS virus. I had another brother...
...desire to be with a woman, they always knew that they were attracted to men. It just so happened that in my instance and my situation, I had not had a desire or thought of being with another man until I was molested by the male next-door neighbor. An incident helped spark, I would say, or created an opening for me to start questioning or start experimenting. There was a male in my group who I used to hang out with as a kid. And for the first time I looked at him, and I thought...
...removing rubble," Zhang says. "I uncovered several children. Some were dead, some were still alive. But I couldn't find my grandson." Unlike many of the other parents and relatives waiting in the rain, Zhang seems drained of hope that his grandson will be found and rescued. When a neighbor asks about the boy, Zhang replies flatly: "He's dead...
Like many of their neighbors, the Kovals have invested all they had in their house. They sold their apartments in the city of Rostov, borrowed money at a steep rate and invested seven years of hard labor to build the place. "In other countries, they pump oil," says the Kovals' neighbor, Sarkis Inechkyan, 60. "We make our living by letting rooms to vacationers." Their worst fears were realized in early April, when Russia's then Prime Minister Victor Zubkov told a Cabinet meeting that the state would need some 1,700 acres (700 hectares) to build more than 200 Olympic...
...Cherie was never going to be a cheerleader for Brown, who as Chancellor of the Exchequer was her immediate neighbor in Downing Street. Her antipathy towards her husband's closest colleague and rival was such an open secret that Blair once joked about it in a speech to the Labour conference. "At least I don't have to worry about her running off with the bloke next door," he deadpanned...