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“We’re just teasing you, nephew. Here, take this. We wear white for celebrations.”

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“Mr. Mosley’s nephew is still here?” his mama whispered, eyeing the lump on the bed as she sat down cross-legged on the floor next to Michael.

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Guinean singer Elie Kamano, who lives in exile, said on social media Sunday that two of his children, age 14 and 16, plus a 16-year-old nephew and his brother, a gendarme, had been abducted.

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But even as Whitten’s health declined, he remained frenetically creative and was never limited to one mode of expression, says Whitten’s nephew Jimmy Cross.

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Our nephew Nicolas Cage came to live with us for a year when he was 14 and his parents were divorcing.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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