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Mona Jewel holds a doll in her apartment at Kimberly Meadows elderly home in Nelsonville, Ohio on April 30, 2010. Jewell never got married and never had kids. “Everyone tells me I’m smart for not getting married and having kids. But I’m not. I wish I had a couple kids to keep me company and take care of me now. I’m all alone,” Jewel said. Sonya plays with a hula hoop in her grandmother’s front lawn. Sonya, who is 9, suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from living with her mother and her boyfriend who abused her for years. “My mother doesn’t know how to be a mom. She’s no mother to me,” Sonya says. Sonya is currently being taken care of by her grandmother. Angela Molina, 8, left, and Gracie Peck, 6, play in the curtains of LaDonna Peck’s daycare center that she runs at her home in The Plains, Ohio. LaDonna Peck usually lets the children entertain themselves as she watches television in the next room. Nicole Catrett, a designer who made an exhibit called Mirrored Pixels, peers into her exhibit at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California on June 29, 2011. The Exploratorium’s summer blockbuster show is called ColorFest, which examines all things color, from rainbows to pigment and dye making. Dustin Franz takes a shower on June 6, 2011 to ease the pain of a harsh sunburn after a weekend camping trip with no sunscreen. The Trimble High School Tomcats face off against conference rivals Eastern Eagles on a fog-covered field in Trimble, Ohio on Friday October 2. Trimlbe won the game 28-7. Shely Pack teaches a ballet lesson at her studio in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Wednesday, August 4, 2011. Pack’s dance studio has produced numerous award winning dancers. Sonya runs into her grandmother’s house when it started to rain. Sonya has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after her mother’s boyfriend beat and emotionally abused her for years. “I hate my mother,” Sonya said. “She let him do this to me.” Closed since December for repairs, the California Street cable cars returned to regular service on June 27, 2011 in time for the summer tourism in San Francisco, California. Sonya Casto lays on her bed with a bag covering her head. Sonya suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after living with her mother in shambles and being abused by her mother’s boyfriends. Lorrie, her grandmother, does the best she can to deal with it. “Sometimes she’s just too much to handle and I get mad at her,” Lorrie says. “But I can’t. This isn’t her fault. She didn’t ask for that abuse.” Sunday Streets 2011 Season continues the tradition of visiting diverse communities throughout the City with a variety of routes in different neighborhoods. On Sunday, August 14, 2011, Sunday Streets was held in the Tenderloin with activities such as bike riding through the streets. Alameda residents got to show their Fourth of July spirit with events such as a parade through the city and celebrations on the USS Hornet. When Andre von Wartburg’s unemployment ran out , he and his wife Linda started a business called Dovetail selling refurbished furniture and moving furniture for people who buy it on Craigslist. They promote it with a blog in which they pick out the best furniture deals on CL.