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What happens to Deborah, who is a large focus of Skloots storytelling in the Henrietta Lacks book?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/rebecca-skloot-henrietta-lacks\/\">Rebecca Skloot<\/a> first became interested in HeLa in high school. Her research her brought her to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/deborah-lacks-pullum-hela\/\">Deborah Lacks<\/a>. Over the course of <em>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em> book, Deborah&#8217;s struggles are a key feature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about how <em>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks <\/em>book ends for Rebecca and Deborah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Henrietta Lacks book discusses the health challenges of Deborah Lacks. Deborah suffers from breakdowns and even a stroke shortly after 9\/11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after Deborah\u2019s discharge from the hospital after her stroke, Skloot joined her at her church to watch the baptism of Sonny\u2019s nine-month-old granddaughter. Pullum was the preacher that day, and almost as soon as the service began, he called Skloot to the pulpit. Surprised and nervous, Skloot resisted, but Pullum compelled her to join him.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Once she stood beside him, Pullum announced that Skloot was going to tell the congregation what happened with Henrietta, Johns Hopkins, and Henrietta\u2019s children<\/strong>. She was sharing what she had learned researching the Henrietta Lacks book. Skloot did just that, gaining confidence as the congregation answered her speech with \u201cAmen\u201d and \u201cHallelujah.\u201d When Pullum took back the microphone, he said that Henrietta\u2019s story was no longer about her children, but her <em>children\u2019s<\/em> children\u2014the baby being baptized that day, Davon, and the rest of Henrietta\u2019s grandchildren. <em>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks <\/em>book tells the story that touches all of them.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks <\/em>Book: <strong>Deborah\u2019s Final Days<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2009, eight years after Deborah\u2019s stroke, Skloot drove to Clover. When she got there, she found she was disoriented\u2014the road into town seemed longer than it had the last time she visited. All of a sudden she realized what had happened: <strong>The town had been razed<\/strong>. She collected some of the debris from the vanished houses to give to Deborah.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skloot hadn\u2019t been in touch with Deborah for months, though Skloot had called her a number of times. In the years since the baptism, the Lackses had endured considerable hardship: Sonny had a quintuple bypass without insurance, a surgery that landed him $125,000 in debt; Zakariyya had been expelled from his assisted-living facility and a Section Eight housing project, the latter because he struck a woman with a forty-ounce beer bottle; and Deborah had divorced Pullum and moved into an assisted-living facility herself. <strong>In 2006, when Deborah\u2019s divorce was finalized, she had no money in her checking account, and her entire monthly income was $742: $732 from social security and $10 in food stamps<\/strong>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Skloot returned from Clover, she called Deborah again and found her voicemail box full. Clover\u2019s disappearance was too important to wait, so 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.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Henrietta Lacks Book Author Remembers Last Seeing Deborah<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The last time Skloot had seen Deborah, she\u2019d made Skloot and Davon watch <em>Roots <\/em>and <em>Spirit<\/em>, an animated film about a wild horse, back to back. She wanted them to see the similarities between Kunta Kinte and Spirit, how they both fought for their freedom.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the films were done, Deborah played one of the tapes of unaired footage from the BBC documentary on her mother. 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