Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dark blue afternoon. He takes a swig of apple juice and is reprimanded by Lori for not asking first. "Let's play outside, Lori," he asks. Lori explains that today is meant for drawing. Michael takes more apple juice without permission. Lori says that she will tell Sister Geraldine...
Benjamin, age 8, climbs up into the kitchen sink for his eve- ning bath, as his sister Daisy climbs out. Rose throws a towel over Daisy, shampoos Benjamin, tells Davey and Joey to get pajamas on the twins...
...think I'm getting a little closer to my big sister. She and my father got in an argument last night. It was 4 in the morning. I got up and went into her room. I said, 'Don't listen to him because he's stupid. He doesn't understand...
...Geraldine hugged me once. In front of my mother and everyone. I got embarrassed. I hugged her once too, and then I pulled away. I haven't hugged my sister in years...
...want you to meet my grandmother." A small, shy woman is led out into the hall in her slippers. She smiles, nods and retreats. Maria shouts upstairs to see who is home. "You won't meet him. He'll be out drinking until late." She calls to her sister in Spanish. Cara, the youngest, comes downstairs in her pajamas and greets the stranger politely, as Maria's eyes suddenly shine with a prospective joke: "Cara," she says, "this is your real father...