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To most adults, let alone children, the situations the Henleys face every day would be hard to bear.

From BBC • May 30, 2012

All the Henleys have become caregivers for Mike, bolstered by the aides who come to their house every day since he entered hospice care.

From BBC • May 30, 2012

The Henleys went from living on two salaries to one.

From BBC • May 30, 2012

Mrs. Palmer, who troubled herself little about the future, was for ever going off to Dean's Yard, where the Henleys were comfortably established.

From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss

The small green-bound Henleys stand in a row.

From Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins