Word: birthed
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...which anyone with a single black great-great-great-great-grandparent and 31 white great-great-great-great-grandparents was legally black. That regulation went unchallenged until Susie Guillory Phipps, the wife of a wealthy seafood importer who had always considered herself white, got a look at her birth certificate when applying for a passport and discovered that according to the state, she was black. In 1982 she sued the state, which hired a genealogist to delve into Phipps' ancestry. He dug up, among other ancestors, Phipps' great-great-great-great- grandmother--the black mistress of an Alabama plantation owner...
...Bobs, a Palm Beach gift shop, where she hand-paints unicorns and rainbows on baby pillows--"finally, something right-brained," as she puts it. Harebrained is more like it! Kellie recently divorced third husband DEREK CHAPIN after their adopted son Jason, 17, sued to learn the identity of his birth parents so he could see if he was a legacy at a decent college. Incredibly, Jason's real parents turned out to be none other than Kelly's old roommate, ALYCIA SIMMONS, and his own adoptive father Derek! What a shock for all. Some of you may have caught Derek...
...according to Susan Suleiman, professor of romance languages and comparative literatures and former chair of the committee, the program has come a long way already since its birth...
Ocon left school last November to give birth to her daughter, Bailey, in her hometown of Lakewood, Calif. Now she wants to come back, but her ex-boyfriend and the baby's father, Tommaso Maggiore, is trying to stop...
Michelle Crider, 28, was speechless. The pharmacist had just said, "No." The married mother of a two-year-old daughter, Crider was concerned that she might become pregnant after having intercourse with her husband. She called her doctor, who prescribed a so-called morning-after formula: four birth-control pills to prevent implantation of a fertilized egg, a use consistent with recent regulations from the Food and Drug Administration. Then the doctor called Crider back: the pharmacy manager at Longs Drug Store in Temecula, California, had refused to fill the order, citing his moral beliefs...