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Papa was a rolling stone

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Two children of rhythm and blues musician Screamin' Jay Hawkins describe their feelings about their father. One daughter did not know that she was his daughter until she was an adult and she describes meeting him. Another daughter, who knew him when she was young, describes her feelings of abandonment after he left. Hawkins claimed to have fathered 57 children.

Author: Spiegel, Alix
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
Appreciation, Interview, Personalities, Rhythm and blues music, Hawkins, Screamin' Jay

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Long shot

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An elderly woman was left at the Port Authority in New York, NY, by her daughter because the woman refused to quit gambling. She went to live with her daughter after she lost her savings and her home because of her gambling. She hopes to be reunited with her daughter, whom she has not seen in a year since she was left alone in the city.

Author: Spiegel, Alix
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
Social aspects, Personal narratives, Behavior, Gambling, Mothers and daughters, Mother-daughter relations, Gamblers

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My ordeal in a Chinese cell: an American University scholar's six months behind bars

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A woman returning to the US after visiting her parents is separated from her husband and young child at the Northwest Airlines terminal in Beijing, and held for six months in a jail being interrogated for her suspected connections with mainland Chinese dissidents in the US.

Author: Spiegel, Alix, Gao Zhan
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
China, Human rights, Detention of persons, Detention, Civil rights, Political prisoners

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