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Eleanor Roosevelt was born in Manhattan ,her parents Anna Hall Roosevelt and Elliot Roosevelt.
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After his parents wanted a boy,(after Eleanor was born,)he was born.
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With painful headaches, so Eleanor took care of her.She felt glad to help someone, to be needed.
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He had alcoholic problems so,he went to a sanitarium in Virginia .She missed him greatly.
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Hall was the third of the children of the Roosevelt family
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she watched her mother hold the boys on her lap and lovingly stroke their hair, while she was distance.But her father love her , he used to dance with her and she called her "little golden hair".
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When Eleanor turn 8 her mother died
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After her mother died she and her brothers were send to live with their grandmother.In that house there was no place for children to play, she usually sat alone in her room and read.For many months after her father´s death she pretended thathe was still alive ,she made him the heroe of her stories.
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Elliot suddlently caught diphtheria and died too.
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When she turn 10, her father died too.For the rest of her life she carried with her all the letters her father had written in the sanitarium.
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There she learned to speak French.She also joined Hockey and she won the respect of her teammates.
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She fell in love with her fifth cousing ,Franklin, and she started going out with him to parties.
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Began working with poor children at the Rivington Sreeet Settlement House.
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She started going to dances and parties and began to take her place in the social world with other wealthy young women.But she also began working with poor children.She also felt in love with a cousing called Delano Roosevelt.
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at the beginning of their marriage
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1 died in infancy.
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Trouble developed in the relationship, they didn´t share interests.
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