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riderinthestorm

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4. My mother has virtually disowned me over this story....
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 10:15 PM
Feb 2012

The article alludes to those who may be "upset" about this story going public, well my mother was who I was referring to. She's beyond horrified and into outright rage. She's never agreed about the Mormon Church's research into this (aka the Generations Project teevee show), and has always stood by the "Sampson family from Scotland" mythology...

She won't take my calls. Won't answer any messages. Told my other sisters that I'm "dead" to her for "publishing" this. She IS a racist and the thought that she may have been intimately involved with a mixed race man (clearly without her knowledge since this was all still a big secret then) is making her crazy.

I am STUNNED at the level of racism still existing within our civil society.

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