Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Keanu Reeves. I hadn't gone to a movie premiere or a fan club rally in search of Him, pushing my way past hordes of teenage girls and Bill and Ted lookalikes. I met Him this summer, a fellow guest at a garden party given in honor of my sister's high school graduating class in Toronto, Canada...
...really did believe in young women at a time when others did not," said Mann, Warden's sister...
...relatives as a baby, Gray Sexton's recalls being "abandoned" by her mother at an early age. In probably the longest case of post-partum depression, the poet-to-be insisted for years that she was unable to take care of her daughters (the author has a sister, Joy, two years her junior), claiming at times that she hated them and even desired to kill them. This feeling of dismissal was only punctuated by the indifference and/or actual abuse Gray Sexton met in her different foster homes...
Hawaiian native Wendy F. Hanakahi '98 went to New Jersey with her sister to buy a winter jacket. "I wanted to get my winter clothes when it was cold but not too late," she said...
...prize of the collection is a haunting story called The Runner, in which an ordinary man tries earnestly to bridge the spiritual distance between himself and his long-absent sister, legendary in Arizona for making all but impossible runs over ancient, barely visible Anasazi trails in the Grand Canyon. Her descents are a kind of Zen archery, only partly physical. Lopez, who's far too shrewd to bring the fey sister onstage, leaves the reader with a mysterious image: the woman, running on her toes like a deer, glimpsed by rafting vacationers, and then, downriver beyond impassible rock walls, glimpsed...