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INTERVIEW WITH MIDWIFE WILLIE TURNER

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In 2010, I had the honor of sitting down with Mrs. Willie Turner, aged 93, from Midnight, Mississippi. She "caught" over 3000 babies in her lifetime as a midwife. She became the inspiration for the character Polly Shine in my novel The Healing.


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