It was a similar story with Miss Willis, a young single mother with no family network who was looking for a home when she moved in with the couple at the age of 17.

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Actually, you know, coming from an immigrant family, a single mother, the guy that I was actually dating at the time was what we call a sugar daddy.

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Jones attended eight schools in eight years while her single mother often held down two jobs to support her family of six.

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At home she shares a single bed with her mother, a domestic worker for a white family.

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She grew up in a poor family in Gabon, Africa, the daughter of a single mother raising five children by herself.

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