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...Mine” with a cartoon bumblebee grinning on the front. But at the same time, I couldn’t help but be a little excited and downright flattered when people would give theirs to me. And of course, as a certified momma’s boy, I was always happy to give my mother something that I had bought or made for her. As I got older and first started dating, Valentine’s Day became a little more stressful. I didn’t see what the fuss was about, but I was sure whatever girl...
...meter race attracts a diverse group of rowers. Freshman Avery Williams volunteered at the competition and coxed a 15-year-old boy in one event and then had to test her Spanish skills by coxing a veteran rower from Mexico in another. Some C.R.A.S.H.-B competitors, like those from Harvard, are used to competing on water, but others have never been on a boat...
Typically, these volunteers match interested families with likely candidates, showing prospective hosts students' applications, letters and photos. Couples with grown daughters may opt for the familiarity of a girlor choose a boy to experience having a son. Elaine Dawkins, 67, a widowed horse rancher in Jerome, Idaho, for example, chose Heidi from Denmark, because the girl belonged to Pony Club, an international equestrian organization for kids...
These young people bring their stand-in parents a sharper, fresher perspective--and lots of laughs. A girl from Moldavia, for example, expected peanut butter to be butter studded with peanuts. A boy from Holland, told he would sleep in the "bunkhouse," what the family called their add-on bedroom, was visibly relieved to find that it wasn't, as in his Dutch-English dictionary, a toolshed in a field. Larilyn Carpenter, 56, a school principal in Waukesha, Wis., treasures the memory of her Brazilian "son" Luciano's tearing around outside her house late at night, rolling in his first...
Gail Marshall, whose grown son had turned their house into "boy central," enjoyed having two "daughters" last year, from Iceland and France: the three women loved cooking, trading intimacies and getting done up at the salon together. Another year, Richard Marshall, a singer in his church choir, finally found a musical soul mate in a German "daughter." He taught her the tune for Itsy Bitsy Spider, which they sang in the car, making up their own lyrics...