Then, quite recently, a couple who claimed to be friends of his dead parents took the 9- and 12-year-old girls away, he said.

Both authors are in search of reconciliation with their dead parents.

Actually, her mother was an only child, both her parents long dead.

He later built a shrine to his dead parents in the village church on a hill above the town.

Thus, unfortunately, children often broke out of their illness to find dead parents.

My friends and relatives say they don't know of anybody else who cannot part with their dead parents' house.

As so often before, she sought sanctuary within, away from her dead parents' people.

His long dead parents were with him, but his wife was also there.

He even feels that the spirits of his dead parents have been left behind in Virginia.

Here he found that his family was no more, with his parents dead.