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Eleven-year-old Tracy Boswell, deaf from birth, attempts to get her brother Domino's attention as they play in their street with other kids from their Athens, Ohio, neighborhood. She signs minimally and depends mostly on body and facial expressions to express herself. Domino, 13, says Tracy is annoying because she always follows him and won't let him have any private time with his girlfriend.
   
Brittany Davis and Len McCollum (arms raised) dance to the Cha-Cha Slide in an attempt to win free football game tickets before the A&T Homecoming Parade in downtown Greensboro, N.C.
   
Junior Antonio Hall tries to hold back his tears while a teammate hugs him after Northeast Guilford Rams' loss to South Point in the NCHSAA 3-A championship in Chapel Hill, N.C. The final score was 27-10.
     
  
Debra Priddy holds her son Joey Darnbrough, Jr., 2, close as they watch "Resident Evil" at the Kanauga Drive-In in Galipolis, Ohio. Priddy, 34, says she has been coming to the Kanauga all of her life and is thrilled it is still open so she can give her own children the same experience she had.
   
Former President Bill Clinton stops by a mural commemorating the 1992 New Hampshire Primary as he arrives at the Merrimack Restaurant in downtown Manchester, N.H. Clinton was in town to deliver a keynote speech at a local college.
   
Lona Rieson guzzles beer as her boyfriend, Johnny Braham, drinks a cup of coffee on the morning of their separation. The two had been living in a friend's back yard in rural N.C. for over two years. Rieson and Braham had to split up to receive voluntary treatment for alcoholism.
     
  
Stefanie Senkiw Krebs pours water over the head of her new son Patrick, 4, while he bathes with his biological brother Joseph, 2, (left) and adoptive brother Peter, 4. Senkiw Krebs and her husband had just returned to their N.Y. home after adopting three brothers from the Ukraine, bringing their family to a total of four adopted children.
   
A bride in Concord, N.H., lights a cigarette before her wedding on 7/7/07. More couples were married on this lucky Saturday than any other day in recorded history.
   
Michael Melts, 57, reads in Russian to his mother, Hannah Gilis, 85, in a shady spot at Hartford's Elizabeth Park. Gilis is legally blind, and Melts says he helps her out as often as he can. "When I was a baby she cared for me and now I try to do the same. When she's happy, I'm happy too," he said.
     
  
Steve Desotel, 29, plays football with his daughter, Tiffany, as his son plays in the foreground. A convicted sex offender in St. Petersburg, Fl., Desotel cannot live with his wife and children because they are unable to find affordable housing that meets the county’s rigorous sex offender housing restrictions. Instead, Desotel spends his nights at a trailer park with around 100 other convicted sex offenders, and his family lives around 10 miles away.
   
Robin Longsworth rests her head against the cheek of her boyfriend of five years, Jason Pegram, as the two slow dance to a Dixie Chicks song.