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What does the word family mean to you? An American study in 2006 showed that people today 21. Over 99% of the people who were interviewed agree that a husband, a wife, and a child are a family. At the same time, 94% see a parent with a child as a family, 91% say a husband and a wife, without children, are a family, and 81% think a man and a woman, with a child, but not married, are a family too.

The study also found that 22 is very important in the modern thinking on family. Though 81% think a man and a woman, not married, with a child, are a family, the percentage (%) drops to 40% if the couple doesn’t have a child. This is also true with same-sex couples. About 60% see two men, or two women, with a child, as a family, but only 32% think so when the couple doesn’t have a child.

In the study, those who see two men or two women that live together as a family often find it OK for same-sex couples to get married. 23. However, not everyone opens their arms to same-sex couples: the study said 30% have no problem seeing pets as part of one’s family, but they do not think a same-sex couple is a family.

Nov. 13, 1990

Today I got a letter from Jenny, my new friend in America. I wrote her last week, and it was my first time to write a letter in English. I was worried that she wouldn’t get my letter. But she did, and she wrote back a nice long letter. She told me a lot about her family, school life, and the things she likes to do on holidays. I found we both love watching basketball games and think of Michael Jordan as the greatest player ever.

I can’t wait to get a letter from Jenny again. It’s so much fun to share things with a foreign friend. In my next letter, I will tell her some interesting things about my school.

Hans Christian Andersen wrote more than three hundred stories in his lifetime and became Denmark's most famous writer.

He 34 on April 2, 1805. His father was a poor shoemaker and died when Andersen was 11 years old. He left home when he was only fourteen to find work in Copenhagen.

Andersen wrote many fairy tales, like “The Emperor's New Clothes,”“The Little Mermaid,” and “The Ugly Duckling.” These stories really touch our hearts and make us 35 or cry.

Andersen died on August 4, 1875. His home is now a museum and thousands of people visit it every year. Even today, his books are still read all 36 the world.

Pearl is going to take her son, Mark, to see an eye doctor, but Mark has school in the morning and writing classes on Monday and Friday afternoons. Pearl is free only in the afternoon.

Here are the doctor's office hours.

Before I was twelve years old, my family lived in the mountains. Our house was very far from my school. It took me one hour to walk to school every morning. It was a happy time for me, because I could 39, and we would go to school together. There were just six classes in my school, and only about ten students in each class. We 40; the mountains were our playground. I still remember the different kinds of flowers, the songs of different birds, and the colors of trees in different seasons — everything was so 41. Even now I still miss my life in the mountains.