Rebecca Skloot<\/a> to talk about his mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLoretta Pleasant, called Henrietta, was born in 1920 in Roanoke, Virginia, and raised in a small town in Virginia called Clover. At fourteen, she gave birth to her first child, a son named Lawrence; the father was her cousin, David \u201cDay\u201d Lacks. Four years later, she had a second child by him named Lucile Elsie, whom everyone called Elsie and who evidenced traits of a developmental disability. (Elsie would later be institutionalized.)
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Day and Henrietta were married in 1941, and shortly thereafter, they moved to Turner Station, a booming industrial neighborhood in Baltimore. They had three more children\u2014David Lacks, Jr. (Sonny), Deborah, and Joe (later Zakariyya)\u2014the last in 1950.
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David Lacks, Jr. and His Brothers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Lawrence, the eldest Lacks child, had a convenience store, and Sonny Lacks had joined the Air Force\u2014they were thriving. Joe, however, the youngest, was struggling. The abuse Ethel had heaped on him had caused him to develop severe anger management issues. His tendency to pick fights resulted in his dropping out of high school and, later, getting thrown out of the army.
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Learning about HeLa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
It wasn\u2019t until a Rolling Stone <\/em>reporter named Michael Rogers visited the family in 1975 that the Lackses finally understood the full significance of their mother\u2019s cells. At the time, no one besides Deborah was too disturbed by their mother\u2019s cells\u2019 wide spread. This revelation caused Sonny and Lawrence to believe that Hopkins and George Gey had gotten rich selling their mother\u2019s cells.
<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Lackses Struggle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In the 1980s, Sonny was in jail for selling drugs. In 1999, Skloot got in touch with Deborah who was extremely enthusiastic. The second time they spoke, Deborah was reticent. Deborah told Skloot that she couldn\u2019t continue talking to her unless Skloot spoke to the men in the family: Day, Lawrence, and David Lacks, Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Skloot Visits Turner Station and Clover <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nFor days Skloot couldn\u2019t get in touch with any of them. Finally, when she reached Day, he told her to leave him alone and hung up<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nTired of seeing Skloot\u2019s number on his pager, Sonny finally agreed to meet her. He\u2019d spoken to Pattillo\u2014although Skloot didn\u2019t know this at the time\u2014to ask about Skloot, and he promised to take Skloot to meet Lawrence, Day, and, possibly, Deborah, when they met up.
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Skloot travelled to Baltimore from Pittsburgh. Unable to get in touch with Sonny upon her arrival, she decided to visit Turner Station and see if she could locate the Lackses\u2019 old house (she\u2019d come across the address in an old newspaper article).
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Meeting the Lackses<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nOn New Year\u2019s Day 2000, two months after Skloot initially went to Baltimore to meet Sonny Lacks and he turned her down, Skloot was finally able to meet the Lacks men.
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The first Lacks she met was Sonny, who picked her up at her hotel to bring her to Lawrence\u2019s. He was about 5\u20199\u201d, with a manicured mustache and a kind affect.
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In the car, Sonny told Skloot that he didn\u2019t remember his mother; everything he knew he\u2019d learned second-hand. He\u2019d been told she was \u201cnice\u201d and attractive and a good cook. And he knew that her cells had played a role in medical advances like the vaccine for polio.
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Sonny Lacks brought Skloot to Lawrence\u2019s but didn\u2019t come inside\u2014he drove off immediately after Skloot exited the car. Inside Lawrence\u2019s, Skloot found Lawrence cooking pork chops. He was six feet tall and close to 300 pounds.
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Later Years of David Lacks, Jr.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
By 2009, David Lacks, Jr. was $125,000 in debt after having a quintuple bypass without insurance. When she couldn\u2019t reach Deborah, Skloot called Sonny. She announced herself, and Sonny said that he\u2019d been searching for her phone number. Immediately Skloot knew that Deborah had died. Sonny told her the story. About a week before, Sonny had gone over to check on Deborah when she didn\u2019t answer a call from Davon. He\u2019d found her in bed, smiling, dead from a heart attack. It was just a few days after Mother\u2019s Day.
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After his sister\u2019s passing, David Lacks, Jr. took over Deborah\u2019s quest to raise people\u2019s awareness of Henrietta Lacks\u2019s contribution to science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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