21.   Assistant Public Defender Kevin Barrs said Pranckus had a difficult childhood in which he lived in several foster homes.

22.   By telling stories of his own difficult childhood in western Siberia, Maxim Vengerov has encouraged Bosnian children to keep playing music, as a form of salvation.

23.   It was as though he felt it would be politically incorrect to lament about a difficult childhood.

24.   The survey also found that nearly all experienced difficult childhoods.