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son

noun as in male child; offspring

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Wolff grew up in North Haledon, N.J.—near Paterson—the son of an advertising executive father and a mother who was a reporter for the Paterson Evening News.

While getting his Ph.D., he married his wife, Isabelle, and they had the first of their three sons.

But there's no firm timeline and she's "already missing out on so much", particularly with her nine-year-old son Ellis and 15-year-old daughter Summer.

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Louis likens himself to Pierre, the main protagonist in War & Peace, who represents the "everyman" as the illegitimate son of a rich aristocrat who inherits a huge fortune, catapulting him into Russian high society.

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Leaving a store with nothing but three tomatoes in a bag, she said "I shop daily" as and when she, her husband and their son manage to put aside money for food.

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

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