'Secret Daughter': A Mixed-Race Survivor's Story

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Published May 30, 2006 at 9:00 AM EDT

Journalist June Cross talks about her memoir Secret Daughter: A Mixed Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away. Cross describes her book as a "survivor story."

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