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Pace began her testimony Wednesday, when she said Kelly had sex with her repeatedly over the course of six months in 2009 and 2010, when she was only 16. During their time together, his abuse and control of her escalated, she said, and he made her follow manipulative “rules” that prosecutors said are the hallmark of his criminal scheme.

In Topeka, Indiana, a few miles from the Teaberry workshop, Elaine Jones smooths experienced hands over a blue-and-white field of patchwork stretched taut in a quilt frame. Jones, 62, hit on the idea of starting an endless quilting bee, where visitors can gather for an hour of stitching alongside Amish women who grew up with the craft. Visitors come for the chance to stitch (and for the homemade lunch) and soon realize they have much in common with the famously plain-living Amish, Jones said.

Dear Upset: These adults are your son’s children. Evidently your son didn’t get the family memo about how important it is to appropriately express gratitude for a gift. You obviously lay the blame for this rudeness on your daughter-in-law, but you should share your frustration with your son. He’s their parent, too.

But whichever was more important to “MamaJo,” as she’s been known for decades, was irrelevant. Those material things that the retired Streets and Sanitation Department worker and liquor store clerk had an affinity for, while part of her charm, didn’t come close to taking the top spot in her heart. That has always been reserved for family, said her daughter, Karla Ruzich, 42.

“I went up to (Goodwin) and he was OK, he understands and he was dealing with it,” Sox manager Tony La Russa said Wednesday. “A lot of teammates reached out to him. You see it happen. It’s just like when somebody gets beaned, nobody likes it and everybody’s concerned. The game goes on, but in Brian’s case, if you’re a pitcher and you threw the ball and you bean somebody, you have some kind of accountability there. But for a hitter, you just hit it, you can’t aim it. It’s somewhat different.”