Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The tricycle belongs to Callie, the three-year-old doll who likes to suck ice on summer days and watch Jeff Gordon drive his race car--the three-year-old who University of Virginia Medical Center officials believe is the biological daughter of Rogers, not Johnson. Which would mean that Johnson's genetic child is the girl that Rogers and her boyfriend Kevin Chittum named Rebecca. They were raising her a couple of hours away, in Buena Vista--at least until they were killed on July 4 in the nation's worst car accident...
...long More cigarette, one of many she'll suck down during this week from hell. The day before, she made her national television debut, explaining through streaming mascara that she has no idea how one of a parent's worst nightmares had come true for her. Somehow her daughter is not her daughter, at least biologically. Somehow the girl she gave birth to on June 29, 1995, apparently was swapped with a girl born a few hours later to a 16-year-old cheerleader named Whitney Rogers. Somehow nothing makes sense anymore...
Paula Johnson grew up the daughter of divorced parents in Manassas, Va., outside Washington, and moved to Ruckersville five years ago. Now 30, she is the divorced mother of three boys in addition to the switched daughter. She also has custody of an unrelated 16-year-old girl. "My mom says other kids brought home stray dogs and cats," she says. "I brought home stray people." Johnson raises her family on the $9.07 an hour she earns as a flagger at construction sites. "TV dinners and hamburger casseroles" help make ends meet...
...called her at the Wal-Mart pharmacy, where she works, to tell her he had news about Rebecca he had to relay in person. Later a doctor showed up with a syringe, asking for Rebecca's blood for a DNA test. (Hospital officials believe Rebecca is Johnson's biological daughter because of blood-type tests, which are much less certain than DNA tests.) "It's just like we were going to do this hush-hush," Linda says. "They were very unprofessional." The Rogerses refused to let them test Rebecca's blood until last week, when their lawyer told them...
...first time Glenn flew, the family stayed at home in Arlington, Va., watching the launch on TV, since the Glenns were reluctant to pull their son and daughter out of school for the trip to Cape Canaveral. This time wife, children and the Glenns' two grandsons will all be there for lift-off. Glenn takes a small, whimsical pleasure in pointing out that his grandsons, who will be 16 and 14 in the fall, are the same age his son and daughter--now 52 and 50--were the last time he flew...