Denise Bledsoe Slaughter
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Okay.
First of all, I want to say that I'm going to strangle my friend, J.R., who talked me into doing this.
So you all support murder.
Thank you.
I am 66 years old.
I went to grad school at Brown University.
This is a brief story about Pearl Wolf, one of my two mothers.
Everybody should have a black mother and a Jewish mother.
Okay, I have been privileged to have had both.
And Pearl was my Jewish mother at Brown for six years.
And my last year of grad school, I had custody of my younger brother, who I might note I still have custody of.
45 years later.
You do the math.
It's gotten worse with age.
But really, he was in the ninth grade.
I took custody of him.
My brother's gay.
And he and his father, my stepfather, were not getting along.
I told my mother I'll take him to school with me for a couple of weeks.
It turned into the whole year.