boy

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That’s especially true of the demographic of women who watch the network, who are also the prime audience for Hallmark movies about wayward daughters returning home to marry the boy next door.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026

That’s where Vachon, a small-town farm boy from French-speaking Quebec, came in.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

A few years later, in 2007, she had a baby boy who she named Isaac.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

Another calls him a “poster boy for what an all-American kid would be.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Pointing a tiny finger, she said, “That boy at the back with the round hair.”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck