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'How come my grandmother's been waiting there so long?' Nelson Lopes asks the nurse. As his grandmother lies in the emergency room, recovering from a fainting spell, Nelson and his grandfather wait.

After Sonia Vierira and Michael Furtado are married, all 306 guests, from as far away as the Azores, gather on eh church steps for champagne, balloons and kisses.

Every day in the Khmer Buddhist temple, friends share their lunch and offer it, through the monk' intercession, to their ancestors. 'When we offer them the food, it's to let them know that we still care.'

The North Providence Cougars are shaving their football numbers on their heads. 'I want to show my school spirit,' says captain Matt Gomez. 'And to show the girls, they love that stuff.'

In Virginia's kitchen, her friend explains why she wears layers of black. 'My daughter, the cancer, died. Three my daughters, Portugal, died. My husband died. Too much cry. Too much.'

Tamara works nights as a caregiver. This afternoon, instead of sleeping, she's made Creole oxtails and rice for her family. 'When I'm broke, ' she says, 'I can't sleep.'

Sylvia Ghionis learned to sew years ago in Sparta. Now, it's the end of another wedding season, hundreds of Rhode Island brides have passed through her hands. 'I'm really tired,' she says. 'I've worked very hard for the summer.'

'I'll give you a dollar id you shave it … I'll give you a quarter … a dime.' Despite his mother's pleas, Brad Langborg s off for the prom, his goatee intact.

While the Lithuanian woman is eulogized in eh church across the street, the pallbearers take their morning break. After finishing their coffee, they will file back to the Mass, then lead the mourners to the cemetery.

These pictures are from the newspaper column 'Our Times,' which appears weekly in the Providence Journal-Bulletin. Here, the 12-year-old Whitfords explain, 'We were supposed to be twins, ' says Kenyetta. 'but the egg split, ' says Eboni. Kenyetta…