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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sister Teresa, who still works in the store, said she knew "Ted didn't have much of a childhood, that he was very unhappy because he always had to study, and he didn't spend much time around other people." But she has no doubts about his sanity, and she told the psychiatrists so. "They wanted to know if we felt he was normal when he came into town," she says. "And I think it's fair to say that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TED KACZYNSK'S NOT CRAZY, HE'S OUR NEIGHBOR | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...donor with a gentleman's understanding, Dahl says, that McNutt would buy him a life-insurance policy, give him money to compensate for the pay he'd lose while recovering from surgery and--most important and perhaps most unrealistically of all--promise that he would never disappoint Dahl's sister. "I made it abundantly clear," says Dahl, "that the donation was for Dorothy's happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A HEART AND A KIDNEY | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...wasn't too much of a non-sequitur when Adair's sister dared her to place a personal ad for her mother...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Single Daughter Seeks Single Father | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...oldest sister was visiting me for a weekend in August. We spent some time chatting about our mother's love life, which basically was rather bleak at the time," Adair explains. "She came up with the great idea of my using my Harvard connections to locate an eligible bechelor...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Single Daughter Seeks Single Father | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...nothing happened except I won the bet with my sister and I have my pride...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Single Daughter Seeks Single Father | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

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