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Sapphire talks about the difficult birth of  'The Kid'

Sapphire talks about the difficult birth of 'The Kid'

A national audience rooted for Precious, heroine of Sapphire's "Push," as she learned to read and became a good mother. The first pages of "The Kid," Sapphire's new book, open with an inevitable tragedy: Precious dies and leaves her 9-year-old son, Abdul, alone to descend into hell.

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