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After failing a physics test due to missed class is at the time of her mother's death, Gina, left, seeks the comfort of her best friend, Maria Garcia.

Gina receives tremendous support from both classmates and faculty at Hope High School, who have organized fund-raisers and food donations for the family. Here, she receives a hug from a classmate at school.

Gina, right, is encouraged by school guidance counselor Shirley DiMatteo, just before the Thanksgiving holiday. Counselors help with the the logistics of caring for her family

high-school senior Gina Reynoso, 19, who recently lost her mother to cancer, speaks with a probate judge to obtain guardianship of her younger brother, Gustavo, five. Court rules in her favor.

A grandmother rejoices with her daughter at a health clinic, when she receives word that enough meningitis vaccination has finally arrived, and her granddaughter will be inoculated. The young girl, right, reacts somewhat differently.

The public health adviser, left, of the Rhode Island Department provides Meningococcal vaccine and information to doctors from around the state.

Hospital employees load syringes with the meningitis vaccination for mass inoculations.

health director Patricia Nolan comes to an emergency meeting at the Health Department to discuss the state's handling of the meningitis outbreak.

concerned parents wait with their children outside health clinic while Manager determines if there are enough meningitis vaccinations to go around. Some patients have to order The vaccine themselves when the supply runs out.

Each night before going to bed at the halfway house, Charles Coleman says his prayers.