The Ugly Cry
How I Became a Person (Despite My Grandmother's Horrible Advice)
by Danielle Henderson
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appears in Autobiographies.
Abandoned at ten years old by a mother who wanted to start a new family with her drugaddicted, abusive boyfriend, Danielle was raised by grandparents who thought their childrearing days had ended in the 1960s. She grew up Black and weird, before weird was cool, in a mostly white neighborhood in upstate New York, which created its own identity cri...
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