You know, it was an amazing thing from my own perspective, ... I appear white. When you had mixed-race children in those days, you took your black father's identity. So it was a little strange to be sitting there with this white couple and they were my aunt and uncle.
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It was gut-wrenching to sit there and tell this lie, ... She has been living all these years thinking she had been saving them from a bad situation.
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