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Article: FOR THE LOVE OF THEIR FATHER: SONS TAKE CARE OF SICK DAD
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- Dayton Daily News
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- August 13, 2004
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COMMENTARY
While their mother is at work making money to help pay the bills,
and an older brother is defending our country in the military in
Iraq, two Huber Heights teenagers are staying at home this summer
taking care of their sick father.
`I am the proudest mother in the world,' said Tina M. Brooks, who
works for a computer learning center. `When I check the news, there
is little but negativity about teenagers. I think it is time to tell
more positive stories about our young people, and I have one to
share.'
`Josh will be 17 in a week and his little brother Chris is 13 and
without a second thought the two are devoting tremendous efforts to
make things better for their father,' she said.
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