The family sat at the funeral home for three days expecting Mom to show up, ... When they threw dirt on the casket, they knew she was dead.

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I really feel like this is such an important story of racial healing in America, ... Somebody thought they had to leave their family to make this marriage work, and then to be fully received -- it was just a miracle, really.

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My mom had said if I was going to do this and if I found somebody, to tell them she was dead because she couldn't face them after all these years.

243

That's her on the line, ... She was supposed to be quiet. All three of us were crying.

241

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.

220

Was your father's name Henry?

162

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.

152

You don't know me, but I think we might be related.

137

I said, 'I'm her daughter,' ... She was flabbergasted.

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