41.   As he struggled financially to maintain two households, his mother died suddenly.

42.   As the novel opens, their mother has just died in childbirth, and their guilt-ridden father has suffered an incapacitating nervous breakdown.

43.   At that point, she recalled, she was more shocked to find she had a stepmother than she was to learn her mother had died.

44.   Autobiographically-themed tales about a boy whose mother dies of cancer.

45.   Between ovations, Horowicz took time to tour Auschwitz, the concentration camp where his mother died.

46.   Beyond that, his mother was dying of cancer.

47.   Bonnie Brown Heady took the boy after telling school officials that his mother had died of a heart attack.

48.   Both were young children when their mothers died, and both their fathers brought home new wives in short order.

49.   A case in point is the little boy who came floating in on Thanksgiving Day after his mother died at sea.

50.   A brief reunion occurs when their mother dies.