Ruth: A Brief Biography Of Ruth

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Ruth was born in Poland in 1921. She is James’ mother and she has lived quite a rough life. She was born in Poland, but raised in the south. Her and her siblings weren’t loved by their father, he was quite cruel. She had been sexually abused by her father and was very scared of him, but didn’t want anything bad to happen to him. Despite her rough childhood, she grew up to be as good of a mother as she could be to her children. She was a white woman with black children. She never told her children what her life was like, they really didn’t know much about their own mother. It took James until he was fourteen years old to even know what his mother’s maiden name was.
Ruth would rather shut down her children’s questions than explain anything to

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