Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parent. As a single mother, Stacy depended on welfare for assistance, and she and her daughter moved from place to place, living with family members and friends for short periods of time. "We had to rely on friends and relatives a lot. I kind of learned as I went," Stacy Anderson says...
...Schaffer hadn't always been surrounded by friends. When his parents divorced in 1982, Ryan's mom knew that her teaching career couldn't support her three boys. She went to work in advertising and eventually successfully started her own company. Without support from her ex-husband, she put each of her three sons through a top-notch private school and managed to somehow keep the family home...
...brothers around, Ryan treasured the years he spent alone at home with his Mom. When she wasn't working or getting cancer treatment, she would pick him up after school and take him to the movies. "She wasn't the same as other mothers," Ryan says. "I mean, we went to see Lambada together...
...letter was going to come that day, and when she called that evening she tried to mask anticipation by starting a casual conversation about school. "I said, `Mom, I got into Harvard,' and then I heard the phone drop and she just started screaming. My aunt said that she went around the hotel and told everyone in the lobby that her son was going to Harvard. I was as happy for her as I was for myself...
...group of parents watched as their sons took part in the commencement exercises at the University School in Cleveland. Jan Schaffer wasn't supposed to be there that day, but she was. She defied the odds by living to see her youngest son graduate. After the ceremony, Ryan went to his mother and hugged her. "We made it, Mom," he told...