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When a child or parent is in crisis, say and do something

Gizzell never made it to 4th grade. Her suffering was so awful that a seasoned forensic investigator cried as she testified.

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Sue Ontiveros: A car tells the real story of immigration

In these times, the picture painted of immigrants and refugees is dark and ominous.

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Sue Ontiveros: Chef helps immigrants and refugees — with soup

Immigrants and refugees are not some monolithic “them” to be feared but rather people he’s worked alongside.

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Ontiveros: New book should sour America on sugar

The sugar industry not only worked successfully to get its product deemed safe and heralded as a great source of energy.

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Ontiveros: Small town folks not only ones nostalgic for lost past

I understand that feeling of being left behind.

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Sue Ontiveros: Take care of yourself and Mom will thank you

The masses speculated that the mother’s heart was so broken after losing her daughter that she herself died. Maybe.

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Sue Ontiveros: Sewing stitches together a community

And so a few times a year they make blankets for the premature babies born at Stroger Hospital and pillowcases for patients at La Rabida Children’s Ho

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Sue Ontiveros: Forget TV, here’s the life of a Real Housewife

Those babes – with their fake hair, phony parts and ugly personalities – have nothing to do with Real Housewives. My mother was a real housewife.

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Ontiveros: A brush with goodness lifts post-election spirits

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