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Relationships

Sunday, January 04, 2009

They took 'love thy neighbor' to heart

Carey Wodehouse never imagined she'd fall for the boy next door. "She was the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen when she walked through that front door," he said.

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Miracle child grows up to join foster family

When the 3-month-old baby was placed in Annie Shack's arms 16 years ago, she was told to care for him but not expect much for his future.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Surprise proposal a beautiful success

Jennifer Ives wanted to be surprised.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Family relationships have to be nurtured

You can pick your friends, but not your family. Starting off with immediate family members - parents, children, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Then if you're married, remarried or in a lasting relationship, you have in-laws on many different levels. Often, we're talking about high numbers.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Enjoy the (really) big family while you can

With nine children and more than 60 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Naomi Watson never has to worry about spending a holiday alone.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

I Do, I Do: Age difference kept them apart for years

Kristen Alberre and Jameel Akel, both first-generation Arab-American Christians, met when she was 10 and he was 15.

Friday, December 19, 2008

Church shields itself from buzz over news story

The Mandarin church that plans to publicly discipline a former member for what senior officials call a "sexually immoral relationship" went private itself Thursday.

Adoptees have place to hang their stocking for good

Almost two dozen families in Northeast Florida can hang up that extra Christmas stocking this year with permanent nails.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Church to out ex-member's 'sexually immoral relationship'

Grace Community Church in Mandarin plans to tell it on the mountain - or at least preach it from the pulpit - on Sunday, Jan. 4. And it's not something former church member Rebecca Hancock wants her children or anyone else to hear.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

DCF slapped over sloppy records

The Florida Department of Children and Families repeatedly violated state laws and its own procedures by not releasing records to lawyers for children in a Nassau County foster home abuse case, an internal report by the department's general counsel obtained Tuesday by the Times-Union says.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008