Her fondest memory of Clark was when she would throw dance parties at her house with her neighbor friends while they watched "American Bandstand" in the afternoon.

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Jessica, who was a year older than Connie, seemed content to cede the kitchen to the neighbor girl while she read books or played with her terrariums.

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"Right now, I have everyone looking at me as the mother and wondering what happened, " Tia Knowles told a small group of reporters while sitting in a neighbor's house down the street from where she lived with her children.

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