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| | The Villages Daily Sun |
 | | Mathis and his wife, Pam, have nine children all together — biological, adopted and foster. |
 | | Pam and Clint had succeeded in blending his, hers and theirs into a cohesive, successfully functioning family unit, but they wondered what adding her half-sister would do to that equation. |
 | | Emel, 12, and Elma, 14, close friends of the Mathis children from church, caught in a tough home situation, were taken into state custody, a situation that was distasteful to the Mathises. |
| www.thevillagesdailysun.com /articles/2006/10/12/news/news01.txt (828 words) |
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