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“He’s paid what he owed. He’s square with the house again.”

Celine had lived and breathed French fashion for the better part of five years.

Nothing can change that- not the passage of time, nor the word “adoption”, what reduces Chanel’s children to the status of orphans. To be orphaned is to be motherless.

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Perhaps Dasani wasn’t ready either. But would she ever have been? To leap from her mother was to leap from herself.

… he had come to family court to reclaim his children— only to be arrested on a warrant for failing to make a different hearing because he was so overwhelmed caring for these same children.

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“Grit is living life like it’s a marathon not a sprint.”

Chanel cannot see the top of her pyramid, she is so consumed with its crumbling bottom. The first goal at Hershey is to re-create this lost pyramid, giving Dasani the structure. her mother lacks.

The Time’s readers press for updates on Dasani, imagining salvation-as if the problems of poverty might be solved through one girl.

…Adelaide considered that perhaps she’d done exactly what she claimed she wanted to do: started again.

She is forever, revisiting the fact of her life, trying to imagine it had the choices been different.

“That we are human. Of value. Important.”

Ellen Emma Armstrong stands among these extraordinary conjurors as America’s first African-American woman magician to ever headline a magic show. She was born on December 7, 1905 in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Bess always believed in Harry’s vision and shared his passion for magic.

She soon discovered that performing magic was healing for her. The awe and wonder she created for her audiences lifted her spirits.

You’re a hell of a man. “Sano como una manzana”.

We came from Ireland when I was a boy. Everyone went their own way, eventually. He said it with no emotion or regret.