boarding home
Americannoun
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boarding homes
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She landed in the hospital and then in a boarding home for adults with mental illness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2018
Elizabeth Terry, 63, a caregiver who lives in a boarding home in the Verdugo mountains, has had to evacuate three times: a wildfire in 2016, another in 2017, then this week’s mudslides.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2018
“I had something very similar happen to me when I was boarding home last year,” one Redditor said in response to the above video.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2017
He spent his teenage years in a boarding home.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2015
For six months now Nance had been living at a young women's boarding home, realizing a life-long ambition to get out of the alley.
From Calvary Alley by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
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