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...university and the marriage amount to the same for the Belseys, a family torn apart, far too fast, when a conservative English-Jamaican clan, the Kipps, moves into the town, the college, their sex lives...
...final self at a mere 20 years of age, I am pretty sure that when it comes to marriage, times are a-changing, again. We have watched and now question the new but older mothers around us, mothers who are spending their lives juggling the home and the office, torn between summers on the shore and summers in the shop, and shifting from Blackberry to ballet class. I don’t want this sort of balancing act, and much of my generation seems to agree. Bring on the boys, the vows, and the baby carriages...
...voices of the thousands who have lost everything but still talk about rebuilding on their same spot of soggy ground, the way New Yorkers talked about rebuilding the World Trade Center after 9/11. It's a question of resolve, says Plaquemines Parish sheriff Jiff Hingel, whose home lies torn and submerged somewhere in the waters of Buras. "If they start making people move from Plaquemines Parish," he says, "then before long they'll make people move from St. Bernard and eventually from New Orleans. Where would it stop? No, sir, we're not giving an inch...
...ruins of postwar Cologne and a tribe of incomprehensible strangers. "I felt like a creature cut off from everything," she says, "a marmot dropped by a white hawk in the middle of the desert." Her struggle over the next years to put down roots is told with painful simplicity. Torn from the comforts of the yurt, Kaja endures "the feeling of suffocation and the fear that the roof is falling in on my head. Why did these people live in houses with no holes in the roof?" Inexorably, she acquires a new language, religion and way of life, shedding leaves...
...later, Mazza learned that he had torn ligaments in his ankle and might not return for the Crimson at all this season...