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In Tbilisi, Ms. Goldberg and her friends bonded with an 11-year-old boy named Avi who, through complicated means, was already carrying on a correspondence with a Jewish boy in Philadelphia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The boy was referred to the Home Office National Referral Mechanism - which ensures support is given to victims of modern slavery - and it was concluded he had been a "victim of exploitation".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The boy was a gang leader in a Caracas high school and a member of an outlawed Venezuelan Communist youth group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
She says visitors are not allowed, meaning friends and family can not come to help her with her five-week-old boy.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Wait, Santana’s daughter had a gold Flash about the boy who would grow up to become Nat Turner?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Narwat then takes us to the second primary school in the village - this one for boys, just a couple of hundred metres away.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Diana had made her two cherished boys promise to always stand by one other, but almost 30 years after her death they are no longer talking.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
I learned that he’s a proud father of two boys and a girl, and two dogs named Nipsey and Scrap, whom he affectionately calls his “babies.”
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
The competitive dancer has two boys — 5-year-old Leo and 3-year-old Jet — with husband Carson McAllister.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Then she got up to clear the plates while the boys left the room.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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