Growing up without a mother from the time she was three -- it wasn't a good thing for a child, even knowing the kind of mother Alice had been.

" Growing up in Ohio ", he would later remark, " was just planning to get out ".

Growing up in relative poverty in an otherwise affluent community, Robinson and his minority friends were excluded from many recreational opportunities.

Growing up poor in New York City, Kurtzberg entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s.

Growing up, she did not have many friends and stayed home a lot.

Growing up, she was known by the name Dagmar.

Growing up as a hostage in Constantinople, Theodoric received a privileged education, and succeeded his father as leader of the Pannonian Ostrogoths in 471 AD.

Growing up, he was a competitive runner and also batted. 492 for the Junior Intercounty Baseball League's Brantford CKCP Braves in the summer of 1980.

Growing up, his best friend was Merle Tuve, who would also go on to become a highly accomplished nuclear physicist.

Growing up in the Bronx, he got into occasional fights and was something of a troublemaker at school.

Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari.

Growing up an orphan, Perdita was independent, distrustful, and proud, but she is softened by love for Raymond, to whom she is fiercely loyal.

Growing up in Clarksdale, Mississippi, he began playing piano and guitar when he was eight, forming his group, the Kings of Rhythm as a teenager at high school.

" Growing up in London where she could not have a horse she was obsessed with them: all her early books are about girls who have ponies.

Growing up, Bridges shared a close relationship with his brother Beau, who acted as a surrogate father when their father was working.

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Growing up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania, Robert Yerkes wanted to leave the hard life of the rural farmer and become a physician.

Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because " it meant could get more involved in the games.

Growing up in New York, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but he was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity.

Growing up the son of a wealthy merchant who was well connected with the major artists of the time, Hofmannsthal was raised in what Carl Schorske refers to as " the temple of art ".

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Growing up to 20 m tall, like T. vernicifluum it is used for lacquer production.

Growing up to 20 m tall, its sap produces an extremely durable lacquer.

Growing up in a " a rural working-class family ", Garner's ancestry had been connected to Alderley Edge since at least the 16th century, with Alan tracing his lineage back to the death of William Garner in 1592.

Kirk Cameron claims he was once an atheist, but when Kirk was 17, during the height of his career on Growing Pains, he developed a belief in God, and became a born-again Christian.

Growing up, Fink, Petersen, and Baechle skateboarded in their free time until Fink developed knee problems, which shifted their hobbies towards making music.

Growing over the years to meet the needs of the Amphibious Force, the base has developed into one of the most modern in the Navy.

Growing up in New Zealand without television until the 1960s, Dale developed a love of theatre and amateur dramatics.

Growing up exposed to period instruments as the norm, Wispelwey developed a conviction that, under the right conditions, much 18th-and 19th-century music sounds superior when played on gut strings than on metal.

Growing up, Rockman had an interest in Natural History and Science, and developed fascination for film, animation, and the arts.

Hawken has authored seven books, including The Next Economy ( 1983 ), Growing a Business, and The Ecology of Commerce ( 1993 ), in which he coined the term " restorative economy ", but never developed or followed-up on the idea.

Growing up on the frontier, Proctor early developed into a skilled woodsman and hunter — interests that remained with him for the rest of his life.

Growing up in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, home to renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, young Michael developed an interest in Wright's profession.

Growing up in a musical family, it was during those early years that the two developed a love for music.

Growing up in Long Branch, New Jersey, Pulido first developed an interest in the horror genre after the release of Night of the Living Dead when he was a child.

Growing up near the beach at Bondi NSW, he developed a keen interest in surfing from an early age.

Growing settlement pressures, in particular the discovery of gold in the surrounding mountains, as well as the interest of white settlers to form ranches in the region, caused the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to abruptly terminate the reservation in 1879.

Growing out of this courtly culture, Middle High German literature reached its peak in lyrical love poetry, the Minnesang, and in narrative epic poems such as Tristan, Parzival, and the Nibelungenlied.

Growing up in the Montreal area of Canada, McEwen learned to love opera at an early age, listened to the Met broadcasts, and at age 14, made a trip to New York one winter break to hear several of his favorite operas, which included Bidú Sayão and Jussi Björling in Rigoletto.

Growing up as " and only child in a house without culture ," ( Bolland says that his " mother and father had no use for art, literature or music "), he embraced the late 1960s pop culture explosion of " pirate radio stations, music ( particularly Frank Zappa ...), drug taking, psychedelia, " peace and love ," " dropping out ," the underground scene, Oz Magazine ," and other aspects of hippy culture epitomised by underground comix such as Robert Crumb's Zap Comix.

" Growing up in St. Louis, I always played for the love of the game and never dreamed this could ever lead to my being a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Growing up in 50s Hawkes Bay, Paul fell in love with radio, from serials and songs to the voices of Parliament.

Growing up in the family mansion in Omaha, Todd grew to love Ham Radio while living there.

Growing as a normal young man, Annamayya ( Akkineni Nagarjuna ) is in love with his 2 cousins Timakka and Akkalamma ( Ramya Krishnan and Kasturi ) and thinks that his cousins are the most beautiful creations of god.

Growing up, Delvoye attended exhibitions with his parents, and his love of drawing eventually led him to art school.

Growing up Matfield had a love for both rugby and cricket, and even represented Far North Schools in the latter.