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All Together Now: How I Discovered the Family I Never Knew I Had

By Rita Williams
O, The Oprah Magazine | December 01, 2007

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Rita Williams, author of the memoir If the Creek Don't Rise about her unconventional upbringing, shares how the book brought her closer to the big, beautiful family she never knew she had.

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