Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many Cambridge residents get the chance to see their El Salvadoran sister city, San Jose las Flores...
...minute video, titled "Building Peace in the Midst of War," features the experiences of a 14-member delegation from the Cambridge-El Salvador Sister City Project. The group--including local video producer Carol Yourman--traveled to San Jose las Flores in June 1987 to bring the village humanitarian...
Sontag recalls herself as "a psychologically abandoned child." Until she was six, she and her younger sister were raised mostly by aunts, in the New York area. Her parents, Polish Jews who came to the U.S. while young, spent most of their time in China, where her father was a fur trader. After his death there from tuberculosis, her mother returned to the U.S. and remarried. (Sontag uses her stepfather's last name.) In time, the new family ended up living in Canoga Park, near Los Angeles, though it would be truer to say that Sontag lived in books...
After the race, Thompson's world turned further inside-out. Her sister, Harvard freshman Jessica Thompson, who was in Seoul, became extremely sick and needed emergency surgery...
...sister's illness caused Thompson to re-evaluate the importance of winning and the importance of family. "I learned that my family is most important and that my sister my best friend," she notes...