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  • When my youngest was 14, her friend came to live with us when she was going through a hard time with her stepmum her dad worked away and she ended up staying.

    Problem solved 2011

  • The embarrassing is that my older stepmum and stepsister love this book.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » What’s the appeal of Twilight? 2009

  • Over the next three to four years, she made various efforts to rekindle the relationship with her dad, stepmum and even her mother, whom she hadn't seen since she was five or six.

    Problem solved 2011

  • Mark Waddington, War Child's chief executive, is meanwhile visiting projects War Child runs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, working, he says by email, "with street children, ex-female-child-soldiers in Goma and girls such as Josephine, accused of witchcraft by her stepmum and thrown on to the streets in Kinshasa".

    War Child and the Bosnian war 15 years on 2010

  • My mum and stepmum would speak regularly, and everyone always wanted what was best for me and my sister.

    Stuart Broad: My family values Nick McGrath 2010

  • One of the benefits of living back home is that Ive got ready access to the boxes my life was packed into when my stepmum turned my room into a gym.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • One of the benefits of living back home is that Ive got ready access to the boxes my life was packed into when my stepmum turned my room into a gym.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Christian told self-deprecating stories about being back at home with his dad and stepmum, and Cassandra divulged some of Nells eccentricities: her refusal to use a potato peeler because it couldnt trim as close as she could with a knife, her habit of adopting other peoples cats, the way shed had Cassandras wisdom teeth set in silver and turned into a pendant.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • I think my stepmum took all my Dad's to the charity (thrift) shop.

    San Diego/shirts katelnorth 2007

  • Christian told self-deprecating stories about being back at home with his dad and stepmum, and Cassandra divulged some of Nells eccentricities: her refusal to use a potato peeler because it couldnt trim as close as she could with a knife, her habit of adopting other peoples cats, the way shed had Cassandras wisdom teeth set in silver and turned into a pendant.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

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