Word: younger
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...life starts with his birth either in Siberia - where his father, North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, was in exile - or on Mount Paektu, the highest point on the Korean Peninsula. In an early move to quell expected resistance to his son's succession, Kim Il Sung designated the younger Kim as the next leader of North Korea in 1980. It wasn't until 1998, however, four years after his father's death, that Kim Jong Il took over the country's leadership - having been made leader of the Korean Workers' Party and chairman of the National Defense Commission...
...people come to reunions, however, makes it pretty clear why this would be the case for LGBT Harvard-Radcliffe graduates of a “certain age.” People basically come back to reunions because they want to reconnect with Harvard, their classmates, and their younger selves. The idea of such reconnection can be quite unappealing for an LGBT graduate...
...then there is reconnecting with one’s younger self. For many LGBT people, youth was not a happy time but instead one filled with loneliness, confusion, and self-doubt. Having fought very hard to put the shame and pain of those years behind them, LGBT adults often have no desire to revisit those days. Why voluntarily go back to a time in one’s life that is remembered as so painful...
...They are persnickety about all things yet have pulses that never exceed 60 beats a minute. Who else, on seeing men, women, children and livestock fleeing, would run in the direction of the horror? Kupcake (whose real name is Dean) is typical of the breed. When he was a younger man, he used to ride his bike 80 miles (130 km) to his job, along the freeways of Southern California. Then he'd ride home and work out. I tell you all this to qualify Kupcake as a man who's not easily impressed...
...tale begins in the town of Songarh, where factory owner Amulya rescues Mukunda, the illegitimate baby of an employee's son, and puts him in an orphanage, taking on the responsibility for the boy's upkeep. Meanwhile, Nirmal, Amulya's younger son, legitimately fathers a daughter, Bakul, whose mother dies during childbirth. Mukunda is later brought home from the orphanage to work as a houseboy, and he and Bakul become close childhood companions. The family naturally disapproves and separates them at adolescence, but they reunite in adulthood and become lovers. By that time, everybody's lives have changed irreversibly...