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Diane Illis, Neighbor

In her memoir, The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood, Helene Cooper relates her early, idyllic years in Liberia.  But a coup d'etat in 1980 forced the family to flee to America, leaving behind a foster daughter.  This is the story of Helene Cooper's journey home.

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