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Pauline Black

What I Wish I'd Known

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Adoption Is Like Having a Total Blood Transfusion

I'm quite emphatic about you can't stop people miscegenating you just can't do it I mean people would do that. My mother did admit she wished she'd given me all of the information years before and really talked about it but the thing is nobody talked about it then they didn't talk about it until after the 60s when there were more black faces around on the street. When I was born I was the black and white minstrel show on the television that's what I grew up with and Shirley Bassie she was much rather that I had been Shirley Bassie  because she could have sold all those sequins on my dress, he says.

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