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  • ...ed a daughter, and raised in Star, [[Mississippi]]. Her birth parents were unmarried, although they married later and had a son. ...er big break with Take Me As I Am in 1993. Her second album was It Matters to Me in 1995 and she participated in The Best of Country Sings The Best of Di
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  • ...a. He graduated from high school first in his class but was too poor to go to university full time. ...through the chairmanships of several Senate committees, chief whip, etc., to become Senate majority leader in 1977-79 and 1987-88 and minority leader 19
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  • ...abandoned them, and he was raised by his grandparents, believing that his mother was his sister. He did not learn the truth until he was 37, when a Time mag [[Category: Raised With Birth Parent Without Knowing]]
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  • ...andparents in the village of Abbott, [[Texas]]. His grandfather taught him to play the guitar. He began performing in public when he was four years old. ...ade numerous best-selling albums, won three Grammy awards, and was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993.
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  • ...ater he was sent to live on a farm because of problems between him and his mother. He owned the Detroit Tigers baseball team from 1984 to 1992.
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  • ...rights activist in Mississippi. Unable to raise him herself, she gave him to a white friend, also a civil rights worker, who adopted him. He has suffere "From Foster Kid to Funnyman: Tommy Davidson." [Includes portrait]. Available at: [http://www.f
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  • ...into television in 1992, starting in BBC children's programs, moving later to present the National Lottery, Bright Sparks and other programs on televisio ...|adoptive parents]]' support. They are glad they met her but have no plans to stay in contact, although they recognize that they might see her again some
    2 KB (310 words) - 04:15, 5 March 2018
  • Ashcroft was German Jewish and Danish on her mother's side and English on her father's side. Both her parents (Violetta and William) died before she was 20. ...t-known actresses in the world. She won an Oscar for her role in A Passage to [[India]]. Her other films included Madame Sousatzka, When the Wind Blows,
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  • Aucoin was born to Nelda Mae Williams in Louisiana, and adopted at a month's age as the first ...didn't teach it - he was expected to be the teacher. Years of petty theft to obtain cosmetics stopped when he was 15 and realized that a boy would be ki
    2 KB (355 words) - 04:13, 3 March 2018
  • ...me he was five his mother had been murdered by her second husband, and his father was dead from alcoholism. ...enters, jails, etc., during which time he taught himself to read and began to write poetry.
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  • ...o be raised by her grandparents in [[Alabama]], although she still saw her father sometimes. ...42 with Skin of our Teeth. Her 1944 film Lifeboat was her best. She turned to television in the '50s with the early and very successful talk show The Big
    2 KB (324 words) - 04:07, 5 March 2018
  • ...nheimer does admit to having had an affair with Bay's [[Birth Mother|birth mother]], whom Bay traced and met when he was 20. [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
    2 KB (236 words) - 19:37, 3 March 2018
  • ...ced for [[adoption]] at birth. She was [[adopted]] by a couple with a born-to son living in Manly, near Sydney. When she was nine her adoptive mother died of a post-operative brain hemorrhage. She and her brother were not put
    2 KB (322 words) - 04:26, 3 March 2018
  • ...lm and an unknown man. When his mother died he was four years old and went to live in an orphanage for two and a half years before being fostered by a fa ...gold panning. For 10 years he worked until he saved enough money to return to Sweden for a visit, but just before leaving, it was stolen, and he started
    2 KB (301 words) - 03:12, 26 February 2018
  • ...d to Queen Mary's Hospital, Carsharlton, then transferred six months later to St. Lawrence's Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his life. During ...e age of 10, also with severe cerebral palsy, and was the only person able to understand Deacon, because of his severe speech impairment. The third membe
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  • ...revelation? 'Yeah. I wet the bed.'" He never met his [[Birth Father|birth father]]. ...amed Fatty Towers, to cater for the obese (he himself weighs about 360 lb. or 163kg).
    2 KB (283 words) - 18:57, 15 May 2014
  • ...optive father. He continued to have contact with his father, but after his mother died he did not speak for 2 ½ years. He became HIV+ during a period when h Brodkey, Harold. "To My Readers," Independent on Sunday Magazine [London], 27 June 1993, pp. 34-
    2 KB (266 words) - 06:34, 28 February 2018
  • ...he was raised by relatives in [[Ireland]] while his mother went to London to train as a nurse. In 1964 he joined her in London. Brosnan is also an adoptive father: his son Chris Brosnan is a film producer.
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  • Brown was born to an unmarried woman who left her in an orphanage. She was soon placed with birth relative [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
    2 KB (244 words) - 04:43, 4 March 2018
  • ...council flat in Islington, London. Her childhood was happy in spite of her father's alcoholism. She had intended to be a music journalist but was redirected into acting after free weekend cla
    1 KB (196 words) - 18:43, 28 May 2014

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