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Shortly after her mother’s death, Mom shrugs while her father cries. The tears would come later.

At the funeral home, Mom finally allowed herself to cry on her half-brother’s shoulder.

Mom joined her father and half-brother at her mother’s coffin.

Mom’s father was a stoic, undemonstrative man who had a hard time sharing his sadness with his daughter during his wife’s illness.

Cleaning her mother’s bedpan was just one of Mom’s responsibilities.

When cancer struck her mother, Mom Doss took on most of the housekeeping chores, often using a chair to reach the sink or stove.

As her mother’s condition worsened, Mom tried to keep her emotions in check.

Mom Doss shares a stoop with some of her friends in the inner-city tenement. Nearly all the residents of her run-down building are Cambodian or Laotian.

In a cramped, inner-city apartment, a Cambodian girl named Mom Doss tried to coax a smile from her dying mother. The refugee family had been in America only three years when the gastric cancer struck, forcing the vivacious 8-year-old to become--at…

Chicago - Steven Shankle, 12, in an alley behind the apartment in Uptown where he lives with his stepfather, mother and four other children. Both his parents work.