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Low-cost family restaurant chain, for those of you who don't know it.
She wants to go to college, but she wants to come back to Bertie County, because that's where her family is from, where she calls home, and she feels very strongly about giving back to this place that she's been fairly fortunate in.
I've become very close with them, and they've welcomed me like family.
On this piece of paper is the history the way I learned it from my Lakota friends and family.
The "fix," as it's called, may be much more difficult for the dominant society than, say, a $50 check or a church trip to paint some graffiti-covered houses, or a suburban family donating a box of clothes they don't even want anymore.
I went back to my bed, and I prayed, and I secretly thanked God that that missile did not land on my family's home, that it did not kill my family that night.
I began to look into this stuff on the Internet, in books and in documentary films, in my travels with my family.
We're all one family.
And it's a big family reunion.
And yet, like many family reunions, it's not all peace and light.
But what we don't often see is that there's always a third side, and the third side of the conflict is us, it's the surrounding community, it's the friends, the allies, the family members, the neighbors.
For the sake of the kids, for the sake of the family, for the sake of the community, for the sake of the future, let's stop fighting for a moment and start talking.
In a phrase, it's: Four thousand years ago, a man and his family walked across the Middle East, and the world has never been the same since.
And what he stood for was unity, the unity of the family; he's the father of us all.
And so more and more walkers have come, and lately she's begun to earn an income to support her family.
You need his family's permission.
And thank God that Andre Waters's family was so gracious about the call and said, "You know what, we want to know what happened to Andre.
It's a scene in which a young person, somewhere in our family tree, somewhere in our lineage had a heartbreaking decision to make.
There was a time in my life where we had a very troubled experience in our family.
My family, in my city, and almost in the country, was unique.
And my parents were part of a landed property family.
And sometimes family would pray to the spirits to kill off a girl child so they could have a male child.
In the process of preparing this, we looked at how some other cultures around the world deal with this period of time, because here in the Western world, less than 50 percent of us live near our family members, which I think is part of why this is such a tough period.
So to take one example among many: in Southern India there's a practice known as jholabhari, in which the pregnant woman, when she's seven or eight months pregnant, moves in with her mother and goes through a series of rituals and ceremonies, give birth and returns home to her nuclear family several months after the child is born.
People I interacted with daily, worked with, was friends with, family members that I had known a long time, had never shared with me their own stories.
The party line is that every single aspect of my life has just gotten dramatically better ever since I participated in the miracle that is childbirth and family.
So where does that leave the two of us as a family with our three little boys in the thick of all this?
She hanged herself from the mango tree in the family garden."
And after considerable consultation and soul-searching, talking to colleagues, friends and family, it suddenly dawned on me that actually, one the most reliable resources we have in Africa are grandmothers.
I am the fifth-born in a family of 12 children.
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