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...bright February morning in Harlem, Jean Sanders shook Bill Clinton's hand. Just one week out of prison, Sanders had risen early and put on a suit to come uptown from Brooklyn and apply for low-income housing--one of the first stops after scratch for former felons starting over. Clinton happened to be looking for office space in the same building that day. Plunging into the frenzy of cameras and adoring well-wishers, Sanders jostled and sweet-talked his way to the front of the throng and welcomed the former President to the neighborhood. It was hard...
Sanders' other daughter, Janean Fuller, 18, is more forgiving. She spent a long weekend with him at Ophelia's house in August, and Jean washed and waxed the neighbors' cars so he could take her to see Rush Hour 2. He tried to hold her hand when they crossed the street, just as he'd done the last time he'd been with her--when she was 10. "I'm starting to trust him again," she says, "but I don't really want to confide in him too much because what if he messes up and goes back...
...know who has gone in, what they did, when they're coming out and whether they'll try to extract revenge," says Orlando, 38, Jean's youngest brother. Orlando lives upstairs in his mother's house because, he says, he feels he has to look after her. He has created his own immaculate world out of his boyhood room. Between the Smurf doll and the baseball trophies he has set up a big-screen TV and framed photos of his family. When he quietly leaves each day for his job running a city recreation center, he locks his bedroom door...
...Jean called the first gigantic brick shelter he stayed in Castle Grayskull. As a rule, he neatly packages his complaints, slipping them in here and there, camouflaged as corny jokes. He likes attention and knows he is not likely to get it playing the bitter ex-con. The second shelter, which was better, he promoted to "Cuckoo-bird Dungeon" and said he was blessed to be there. But both were trials for Sanders. Inside and out, they alternately reeked of prison or temptation. Within a five-block radius of the second shelter, there were three crack houses. Directly outside...
...Jean Chatzky is editor at large for MONEY magazine. You can send her an e-mail at moneytalk@moneymail.com