Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children often provide the most persuasive statements. One alcoholic's resistance crumbled when his son said, "Daddy, when you read me the funnies on Sunday morning, you smell." Peggi, a former schoolteacher and recovered alcoholic, remembers the day seven years ago when she was faced down by her husband, sister and three sons. "It was awful," she recalls. "But it was crucial for me to see how my drinking affected their lives...
...picking a fight with Brown, the city chose an unusual case. The daughter of New Jersey factory workers, Brown grew up in a loving family, according to a sister who asked not to be identified. Their father was ordained as a Methodist minister. "We were raised to have middle-class values," the sister said. "The judge and the civil liberties lawyers say that her life-style is O.K. Given what Joyce once was, given what we want Joyce to be again, that is definitely not O.K.! To sleep and defecate on the street . . . Is that what people are reduced...
...Bill's sister Dawn (Sammi Davis) is only fifteen, but with the war on, she's already got a soldier beau. "It's the war," her mother says. "It's quick, quick, quick." Dawn replies, "I'm 15, still in school, and I want to be a nun when I grow up." A few months later she's pregnant...
...into bed, she with her diaphragm, he with his condom (or is it hers?). They both know that in an age of erotic malaise, the mating dance is often an audition for a show that gets rotten reviews and closes on opening night. As O'Toole sighs, when her sister tells her to have fun, "Dating...
...wonderful parents and a wonderful childhood," she says tautly. "I only wish it hadn't ended when I was seven years old." In that year her parents joined a quasi-religious organization whose members were mostly affluent and conservative. "They wanted to save the world," says Glenn's younger sister Jessie. "In the process, this cult split up our family." The elder Closes moved to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), where Glenn's father, a physician, ran a clinic. The children were left in various boarding schools in Switzerland and Connecticut...