Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...male actors spoke about fear that they would be seen only in the role of the aggressor. They pointed out that men can also be victimized by the rape of women when that woman is a sister, a mother, a girlfriend. Looking at it from that perspective, as Daniela Raz suggests, "It doesn't have to be women against men [in fighting date rape]. It can be victims and lovers of victims against victimizers and perpetrators...
...will not long be dependent on the kindness of strangers. Accompanied by her sister-in-law, last week Nancy Myatt of Dickson, Tenn., flew to Portland, Ore., to be reunited with the man she recognized from news photographs as her long-lost father John Kingery. Myatt found Kingery at the Laurelhurst Care Center, a nursing home from which he had been removed in early March by her half sister Sue Gifford. Myatt explained that she lost touch with her father, a former autoworker, after he remarried in 1964 and just "slipped away from us." After a time, Myatt assumed...
...photographs taken by Lozano that show Bean-Bayog snuggling a stuffed bear; and a series of letters and stories she wrote to him playing out fantasies about maternal love and devotion. More perplexing still are dozens of pages in her handwriting that describe her sadomasochistic sexual fantasies. Lozano's sister claims her brother said he and the psychiatrist had an affair...
...emerge, as Babayan did recently, only when there is a lull in the shelling. Adapting to life in wartime, they walk the streets carefully, always trying to place the wall of a building between themselves and the likely trajectory of incoming artillery. "We will live on," said Babayan, whose sister had died the day before from shrapnel wounds. "We are simply not going to give up our land...
...picked up some other nicknames from the family, including the creative "Joe-Nathan." While 'Joe-Nathan" was my dad's attempt at a little humor, my baby sister presented me with a gem of a name-- "Ga-lia-ga"--because she couldn't pronounce "Jonathan. " You go figure the similarity. We've tried for the last 15 years...