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Gods--Fiction.. --- Magic--Fiction.. --- Orphans--Fiction. --- Gods --- Magic --- Orphans
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Orphans --- Street children --- Services for. --- Services for.
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Disc 1: Angels on the streets: Myeong-ja and Yong-gil are brother and sister, sold to guttersnipes when they were little. Now they must beg for each meal. One day, Yong-gil decides to run away from the guttersnipes and seeks refuge with a group of orphans. Bang Seong-bin witnesses Yong-gil being bullied by the orphans and brings him to his own home. 4-5 other orphans are already living there. Seong-bin wants to start up a welfare business for orphans and buys a plot of land to build an orphanage with the help of Ahn In-gyu, his doctor brother-in-law. The business starts up in earnest after his new orphanage, Hyangrinwon, is established. Meanwhile, Ahn In-gyu saves Myeong-ja, whom he ran into by chance, and has her work for him as a nurse. Disc 2: Spring of Korean peninsula: Film producer Lee Yeong-il is introduced to Jeong-hee, his friend's little sister. Unable to find an appropriate slot for her in his movie, he gets her a job in a record company and watches out for her. Director Heo Hoon, who is making the film 'The Story of Chun-hyang' with Yeong-il, fires the lead actress of the film, Anna, when she causes too much trouble. Instead, Jeong-hee is hired in her place. Just as Jeong-hee proves herself worthy of the casting and the film-making progresses smoothly, Yeong-il and Heo Hoon face financial difficulties. Yeong-il turns to embezzlement in desperation and is thrown in jail. Disc 3 : Volunteer: Chun-ho and Bun-ok love each other deeply. After his father dies, Chun-ho works as the supervisor of landlord Park's property in Seoul, and is torn up about the reality where Korean people cannot volunteer to serve in the army. Jealous of Chun-ho, Kim Deok-sam snatches the supervisor position from him. Meanwhile, Bun-ok is heartbroken after seeing Chun-ho with Soo-ae, the younger sister of Landlord Kim. On the other hand, Chun-ho sees Bun-ok together with his friend Chang-sik and gets the wrong impression about their relationship. In the end, Chang-sik learns how to drive and leaves for Seoul while Bun-ok and Chun-ho resolve their misunderstandings. When Koreans become eligible to serve in the army, Chun-ho volunteers and the news of his acceptance appears in the papers. Landlord Kim is greatly moved at this news and promises to watch over his house. Chun-ho gets on the troop train, leaving his beloved Bun-ok behind. Disc 4: Straits of Chosun: Seong-gi is back home and bowing his head in front of the photo of his older brother Seong-cheon, who died while fighting in the war. The father is angered at his younger son, who chose to run away from home when his parents opposed the girl he was seeing. He takes it out on his wife and this upsets his younger sister Cheong-ja. Seong-gi had moved in with Geum-sook but when he hears about his brother's death, he leaves her without knowing that she is pregnant with his child. Seong-gi goes to his uncle who had been watching after him until then and tells him that he will volunteer to serve in the army, to follow his brother's footsteps.
Orphans --- Man-woman relationships --- Korea --- History
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Orphans --- Orphelins --- History. --- Histoire --- Social history --- 16th-18th centuries
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Orphans --- People with mental disabilities --- Karoo (South Africa) --- Cape Town (South Africa)
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Rob Mitchell is one of the last "lifers" raised in an American orphanage. Left by a dysfunctional family in an Illinois children's home, he grew up with kids who were not friends but rather "co-survivors." After becoming a Christian as a teenager, Rob found what he was looking for, home and family, in a relationship with God. Rob was able to overcome his past, forgiving his relatives and forging healthy family relationships of his own.
Orphans --- Children --- Parental rejection --- Adult children of dysfunctional families --- Institutional care --- Mitchell, R. B.
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When Roger Bechan was six, his mother packed his suitcase and took him to the Oklahoma Society for the Friendless. He never saw her again. No wonder he and his orphan friends omit the tenth commandment-to ""honor your father and mother.""His long journey through three orphanages and several foster homes is recalled with surprising humor and insight. Eventually, the boy finds a home in a small Oklahoma oil town, obtains degrees from two universities, marries and raises three sons, and becomes the youngest director of the San Francisco Public Library and an award-winning book design
Abandoned children --- Orphans --- Adopted children --- Birthfathers --- Identification --- Holman, William Roger --- Childhood and youth.
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Grandparent and child --- Judges --- Tutors and tutoring --- Ethnic relations --- Teenage girls --- Grandfathers --- Older men --- Orphans --- Retirement --- Kānchenjunga (Nepal and India)
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Charity-schools --- Country homes --- Fathers and daughters --- Governesses --- Married people --- Mentally ill women --- Orphans --- Young women --- England
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