![]() ![]() ![]() Much that others might have found bitter is given a rosy spin: as a great-aunt remembers slavery, "The massahs all looked after their children, no matter who birthed them." As Washington-Williams has it, Robert E. I believed he loved me, after his fashion." His fashion, as he lives out his political career-governor, presidential candidate, senator-involves surreptitious visits marked by vacuous advice and extravagant gifts. But Washington-Williams fashions her a kind of love story: "I knew loved my mother. "Every girls wants her daddy," says the recently revealed daughter of an affair between 23-year-old Strom Thurmond and the family's 15-year-old black maid, "and I wanted mine." In this surprising and sometimes poignant memoir, Washington-Williams reveals how, when she was 16, she learned that her real father was "a handsome, charming, and rich white lawyer." Washington-Williams was raised by an aunt her biological mother, who died at 38 in a hospital's poverty ward, rarely appears. ![]()
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