In winter, when the sky got dark early and Mother worried about her making the long commute home, Naima would sleep on my bedroom floor.

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That other client--Barbara Campbell, a 55-year-old single mother with blonde hair, blue eyes and skin freckled by the Big Sky sun--toured the ranch by horseback only a week prior.

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On "Touch the Sky, " from his 2005 album, "Late Registration, " he recalls how his mother drove him from Chicago to New York in a U-Haul van.

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