Personal Narrative Of My Life: Mary Alice Chambers

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I was born Mary Alice Chambers, on November twenty-seventh, 1962 in Emporia, Kansas, to Robert Lee Chambers Sr. and Sarah Lucy (Hutcherson) Chambers. I am a fifty-four-years-old three times married, African American female with my current marriage approaching the thirteen- year mark. My father was of African American and Native American descent and my mothers of African American and Irish descent. My father’s level of education was the eighth grade, but he later attended the technical college for culinary arts, and my mother graduated high school and took some college course in her later years to learn how to use a computer. I have one sister fifty-seven and two brothers, fifty-eight and fifty-six. My parents were married forty-six years before

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