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'''William Jefferson Clinton''', (b. 1946), 42nd [[Presidents of the United States|US President]], 1993-2001
 
'''William Jefferson Clinton''', (b. 1946), 42nd [[Presidents of the United States|US President]], 1993-2001
  
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==Bill Clinton==
 
==Bill Clinton==
 
<table><tr><td>http://www.anusha.com/billsmom.jpg http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/ATA/0136P~Bill-Clinton-Posters.jpg</td><td>Commonly known as Bill Clinton, he was born William Jefferson Blythe III, weighing six pounds eight ounces and by Caesarian section, at the Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, [[Hempstead County, Arkansas]] on 19 Aug 1946.  Although both his parents had other children by other partners, he was the only child of the couple [[#William Jefferson Blythe Jr|William Jefferson Blythe Jr]] and his wife [[#Virginia Dell Cassidy|Virginia Dell Cassidy]].  (Although some databases report his suffix as "IV", I've seen nothing in my research that would make me think his father was a III, instead of a Junior.)
 
<table><tr><td>http://www.anusha.com/billsmom.jpg http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/ATA/0136P~Bill-Clinton-Posters.jpg</td><td>Commonly known as Bill Clinton, he was born William Jefferson Blythe III, weighing six pounds eight ounces and by Caesarian section, at the Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, [[Hempstead County, Arkansas]] on 19 Aug 1946.  Although both his parents had other children by other partners, he was the only child of the couple [[#William Jefferson Blythe Jr|William Jefferson Blythe Jr]] and his wife [[#Virginia Dell Cassidy|Virginia Dell Cassidy]].  (Although some databases report his suffix as "IV", I've seen nothing in my research that would make me think his father was a III, instead of a Junior.)
  
Bill Clinton was born posthumously, his father having died in a car accident on 17 May 1946 near Sikeston, Scott County, [[Missouri]]. His car overturned and he was either thrown from it, or crawled away only to die from drowning in a nearby drainage ditch.  Four years later on 19 Jun 1950, in Hot Springs, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, his mother Virginia married Roger "Dude" Clinton.
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Bill Clinton was born posthumously, his father having died in a car accident on 17 May 1946 near Sikeston, Scott County, [[Missouri]]. His car overturned and he was either thrown from it, or crawled away only to die from drowning in a nearby drainage ditch.  Four years later on 19 Jun 1950, in Hot Springs, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, his mother Virginia married Roger "Dude" Clinton, who had family in Hot Springs.  Dude with his brother's help had set-up "Roger Clinton Buick" in Hope, and that is how he met Virginia.
  
In 1962, in [[Garland County, Arkansas]] William Jefferson Blythe, legally had his name changed to William Jefferson Clinton.
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The family moved to Hot Spring County at some point.  In 1962, in [[Garland County, Arkansas]] William Jefferson Blythe, legally had his name changed to William Jefferson Clinton.
  
 
On 11 Oct 1975, in Fayetteville, [[Washington County, Arkansas]], he married [[Hillary Diane Rodham]] (b. 1947).  He had met and began dating Hillary while both were students at Yale University.  They had one child, Chelsea Victory Clinton, on 27 Feb 1980 in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.</td></tr></table>
 
On 11 Oct 1975, in Fayetteville, [[Washington County, Arkansas]], he married [[Hillary Diane Rodham]] (b. 1947).  He had met and began dating Hillary while both were students at Yale University.  They had one child, Chelsea Victory Clinton, on 27 Feb 1980 in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.</td></tr></table>
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In 1976 Clinton was elected Attorney General of Arkansas and in 1978 [[Governor of Arkansas]] for a 2-year term.  He was defeated when he ran for re-election in 1980, but then reclaimed the Governorship in 1982 and remained Governor for ten more years.  In 1992, while Governor of Arkansas, he ran for and was elected President of the United States and then was re-elected in 1996.
 
In 1976 Clinton was elected Attorney General of Arkansas and in 1978 [[Governor of Arkansas]] for a 2-year term.  He was defeated when he ran for re-election in 1980, but then reclaimed the Governorship in 1982 and remained Governor for ten more years.  In 1992, while Governor of Arkansas, he ran for and was elected President of the United States and then was re-elected in 1996.
  
In 2000, after his term as President had ended, he and Hillary moved from Washington, DC to [[New York]], where Hillary was elected a US Senator from New York in 2000, becoming the first First Lady to be elected to public office. She ran on the Democratic ticket for the US Presidential Election of 2008 in a field of eight candidates.  During her campaign both Bill and their daughter Chelsea campaigned for Hillary.  Hillary has recently conceded her run, throwing her support behind Barack Obama the only remaining Democratic contender.  
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In 2000, after his term as President had ended, he and Hillary moved from Washington, DC to [[New York]], where Hillary was elected a US Senator from New York in 2000, becoming the first First Lady to be elected to public office. She ran on the Democratic ticket for the US Presidential Election of 2008 in a field of eight candidates.  During her campaign both Bill and their daughter Chelsea campaigned for Hillary.  Hillary conceded her run, throwing her support behind Barack Obama the only remaining Democratic contender, who was then elected.  Barack named Hilary Secretary of State, and in 2013 she resigned that position.
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===Works===
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*[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307266745/102-9279843-7223326?ie=UTF8&tag=countyh-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0307266745 ''Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World''] (Hardcover)
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*[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140003003X/102-9279843-7223326?ie=UTF8&tag=countyh-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=140003003X ''My Life''] (Paperback)
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DI7u-TytRU "Bill Clinton"] on Fox News
  
 
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*''First in His Class'', David Maraniss. Simon & Schuster, New York. 1995. ISBN 0671871099
 
*''First in His Class'', David Maraniss. Simon & Schuster, New York. 1995. ISBN 0671871099
 
*[http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00428383&tree=LEO "Bill Clinton"] on Genealogics citing ''Ancestors of American Presidents'', 1995, Boston, Massachusetts, by Gary Boyd Roberts, Page 130
 
*[http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00428383&tree=LEO "Bill Clinton"] on Genealogics citing ''Ancestors of American Presidents'', 1995, Boston, Massachusetts, by Gary Boyd Roberts, Page 130
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*[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260603/102-9279843-7223326?ie=UTF8&tag=countyh-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0895260603 ''Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security''] (Paperback)
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*[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195322789/102-9279843-7223326?ie=UTF8&tag=countyh-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0195322789 ''The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation''] (Hardcover)
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*[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767914120/102-9279843-7223326?ie=UTF8&tag=countyh-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0767914120 ''The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton''] (Paperback)
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*[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895264080/102-9279843-7223326?ie=UTF8&tag=countyh-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0895264080 ''The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories''] (Hardcover)
  
 
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==Virginia Dell Cassidy==
 
==Virginia Dell Cassidy==
Virginia Cassidy was born 6 Jun 1923 in Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas to James Eldridge Cassidy and his wife Edith Grisham.  She grew up in the area of Hope where her father was a truck driver and her mother was a nurse.  She was married five times, twice to the same man.
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Virginia Cassidy was born 6 Jun 1923 in Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas to [[#James Eldridge Cassidy|James Eldridge Cassidy]] and his wife [[#Edith Valeria Grisham|Edith Valeria Grisham]].  She grew up in the area of Hope where her father was a truck driver and her mother was a nurse.  She was married five times, twice to the same man.
  
 
In 1943 Virginia Dell "Ginger" Cassidy was at Tri-State Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana studying to be a nurse.  While there she met William Jefferson Blythe Jr who would become her first husband.  On 24 Apr 1943, he had enlisted or re-enlisted in the Army.  They were married 3 Sep 1943 in Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas.  He then, in mid-October, went for a tour of duty overseas for World War II.  Virginia finished up her training and went back to Hope where she lived with her parents and worked as a nurse.  Just after Bill returned in December 1945, he and Virginia went to live in Chicago, Cook County, [[Illinois]] for three months, where "...Bill had a job waiting for him... selling heavy equipment...." (Maraniss p27)
 
In 1943 Virginia Dell "Ginger" Cassidy was at Tri-State Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana studying to be a nurse.  While there she met William Jefferson Blythe Jr who would become her first husband.  On 24 Apr 1943, he had enlisted or re-enlisted in the Army.  They were married 3 Sep 1943 in Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas.  He then, in mid-October, went for a tour of duty overseas for World War II.  Virginia finished up her training and went back to Hope where she lived with her parents and worked as a nurse.  Just after Bill returned in December 1945, he and Virginia went to live in Chicago, Cook County, [[Illinois]] for three months, where "...Bill had a job waiting for him... selling heavy equipment...." (Maraniss p27)
  
<table><tr><td>Virginia and Bill were going to look for a house in Hope and so she returned there and was living there with her parents when she got the news that he had died in an auto accident.  She was pregnant and gave birth to William Jefferson Blythe III in 1946, who later became President Bill Clinton.
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<table><tr><td>Virginia and Bill were going to buy a house in a Chicago suburb, and had put money down on it, but it would not be ready for a few months.  Since she was pregnant she went to live with her parents until the house would be ready to move into.  She was living in Hope with her parents when she got the news that her husband had died in an auto accident.  She was pregnant and gave birth to William Jefferson Blythe III in 1946, who later became President Bill Clinton.
  
 
Virginia was still living with, or near, her parents in Hope, when she met her second husband Roger "Dude" Clinton.
 
Virginia was still living with, or near, her parents in Hope, when she met her second husband Roger "Dude" Clinton.
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*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=edith&gsln=Cassidy&sx=&f12=&f4=&f7=&f15=&rg_81004011__date=&rs_81004011__date=0&f18=&f14__n=&_8000C002=&_80008002=&_80018002=&f10=&f16=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1930usfedcen&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=0&recid=3726262&recoff=1+2 1930 census of Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas] showing : "J E Cassidy 31, rents home, $16, married first at 23, b AR/AR/AR, Truck Driver, Southern Lee; Edith 26 wife, married first at 18, b AR/AR/AR, no occupation; Virginia 6 daughter b AR"
 
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=edith&gsln=Cassidy&sx=&f12=&f4=&f7=&f15=&rg_81004011__date=&rs_81004011__date=0&f18=&f14__n=&_8000C002=&_80008002=&_80018002=&f10=&f16=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1930usfedcen&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=0&recid=3726262&recoff=1+2 1930 census of Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas] showing : "J E Cassidy 31, rents home, $16, married first at 23, b AR/AR/AR, Truck Driver, Southern Lee; Edith 26 wife, married first at 18, b AR/AR/AR, no occupation; Virginia 6 daughter b AR"
  
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=Virginia&gsln=Kelley&sx=&f9=&f8=&f10=1923&f6=&f5=&f7=&f1=&f15=&f14=&f13=&f12=&f20=&f0=&prox=1&db=ssdi&ti=0&ti.si=0 Social Security Death Index, "Virginia D Kelley"] : "Name: Virginia A. Kelley; SSN: 214-24-1574; Born: 7 Feb 1923; Died: 17 Apr 1998; State (Year) SSN issued: Maryland (Before 1951)"
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*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&gsfn=Virginia&gsln=Kelley&sx=&f9=&f8=&f10=1923&f6=&f5=&f7=&f1=&f15=&f14=&f13=&f12=&f20=&f0=&prox=1&db=ssdi&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&rank=0&pcat=34&fh=3&recid=38650769&recoff=1+2+14 Social Security Death Index, "Virginia D Kelley"] : "Name: Virginia D. Kelley; SSN: 431-18-9525; Last Residence: 71913 Hot Springs National Park, Garland, Arkansas; Born: 6 Jun 1923; Died: 6 Jan 1994; State (Year) SSN issued: Arkansas (Before 1951)
  
 
*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=50007&iid=NEWS-PA-NE_RE.1994_01_07_0003&r=an&rc=1260,2450,1400,2487;1417,2450,1539,2487;1005,5162,1143,5199;1160,5162,1281,5199&fn=virginia&ln=kelley&st=d&ssrc=&pid=521182211 "Clinton's Mother kept spirits high throughout"], (obituary), ''News Record'' (North Hills, Pennsylvania), 7 Jan 7 1994, page A3 stating such bits as: "she died of cancer", "she grew up in Hope, Ark.", "she left Billy with her parents while she left to study nursing", "her second husband (Roger Clinton) beat her"
 
*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=50007&iid=NEWS-PA-NE_RE.1994_01_07_0003&r=an&rc=1260,2450,1400,2487;1417,2450,1539,2487;1005,5162,1143,5199;1160,5162,1281,5199&fn=virginia&ln=kelley&st=d&ssrc=&pid=521182211 "Clinton's Mother kept spirits high throughout"], (obituary), ''News Record'' (North Hills, Pennsylvania), 7 Jan 7 1994, page A3 stating such bits as: "she died of cancer", "she grew up in Hope, Ark.", "she left Billy with her parents while she left to study nursing", "her second husband (Roger Clinton) beat her"
  
*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=50007&iid=NEWS-PA-NE_RE.1994_01_09_0003&r=an&rc=2666,3925,2828,3958;3214,3925,3336,3958;2866,4863,3002,4901;3020,4863,3139,4901;3396,4971,3540,5009;3558,4971,3666,5009&fn=virginia&ln=kelley&st=d&ssrc=&pid=521184259 "Thousands Mourn President's Mother"], (story about funeral), ''News Record'' (North Hills, Pennsylvania), [[Jan 9]], 1994, pg A3 stating such bits as: "Barbara Streisand attended the funeral", "Virginia died of breast cancer", "funeral was in Hot Springs", "Richard Kelley and Roger Clinton were there", "eulogy by Rev. John Miles of St. James Methodist Church of Little Rock".
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*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=50007&iid=NEWS-PA-NE_RE.1994_01_09_0003&r=an&rc=2666,3925,2828,3958;3214,3925,3336,3958;2866,4863,3002,4901;3020,4863,3139,4901;3396,4971,3540,5009;3558,4971,3666,5009&fn=virginia&ln=kelley&st=d&ssrc=&pid=521184259 "Thousands Mourn President's Mother"], (story about funeral), ''News Record'' (North Hills, Pennsylvania), 9 Jan 1994, pg A3 stating such bits as: "Barbara Streisand attended the funeral", "Virginia died of breast cancer", "funeral was in Hot Springs", "Richard Kelley and Roger Clinton were there", "eulogy by Rev. John Miles of St. James Methodist Church of Little Rock".
  
 
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*[http://www.wargs.com/political/clinton.html "Bill Clinton"], ancestry research by William Addams Reitwiesner, where he states that: "The following material on the immediate ancestry of Bill Clinton is taken almost verbatim from Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents, First Authoritative Edition [Santa Clarita, Cal.: Boyer, 1995]."
 
*[http://www.wargs.com/political/clinton.html "Bill Clinton"], ancestry research by William Addams Reitwiesner, where he states that: "The following material on the immediate ancestry of Bill Clinton is taken almost verbatim from Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents, First Authoritative Edition [Santa Clarita, Cal.: Boyer, 1995]."
 
*''First in His Class'', David Maraniss. Simon & Schuster, New York. 1995. ISBN 0671871099
 
*''First in His Class'', David Maraniss. Simon & Schuster, New York. 1995. ISBN 0671871099
*[http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wjhonson&id=I16735 "James Eldridge Cassidy"], by Will Johnson
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*[http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wjhonson&id=I12607 "James Eldridge Cassidy"], by Will Johnson
 
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=genepool%2c&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=James&gsln=Cassidy&sx=&gs1co=2%2cUnited+States&gs1pl=6%2cArkansas&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=443622&recoff=1+2+50+51 "Family Data Collection - Individual Records", "James Eldridge Cassidy"] showing: "Spouse Edith Valeria Graham; Parents James M Cassidy, Sarah Louisa Russell; Born Nevada Co, Parker Twp, AR; born 19 Aug 1898; married Nevada Co, Ar; married 3 Jan 1922; died Hope, Hempstead Co, AR; died 11 Mar 1957"
 
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=genepool%2c&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=James&gsln=Cassidy&sx=&gs1co=2%2cUnited+States&gs1pl=6%2cArkansas&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=443622&recoff=1+2+50+51 "Family Data Collection - Individual Records", "James Eldridge Cassidy"] showing: "Spouse Edith Valeria Graham; Parents James M Cassidy, Sarah Louisa Russell; Born Nevada Co, Parker Twp, AR; born 19 Aug 1898; married Nevada Co, Ar; married 3 Jan 1922; died Hope, Hempstead Co, AR; died 11 Mar 1957"
  
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==Henry Patton Foote Blythe==
 
==Henry Patton Foote Blythe==
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Henry Patton Foote Blythe was born about 1851/2 in Mississippi.  About 1875 he married Frances Ellen Hines in Mississippi, and probably in Tippah County.  They had seven children before his death which occurred between 1895 and 1900.
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*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6742&iid=MST9_666-0101&fn=Laura+E.&ln=Blythe&st=r&ssrc=&pid=14336978 1880 Census of Tippah County, Mississippi] showing "Thomas Blythe, 51, Farmer AL/TN/TN; Elizabeth 49, wife TN/NC/NC; Martha 25 daughter; Mary 22 daughter, C Columbus, 12, son; Henry Blythe 28, son MS/AL/SC; Francis E, 21 MS/TN/SC, daug law, Laura E 4 G Daughter, Mary E 3 G Daughter"
 
*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6742&iid=MST9_666-0101&fn=Laura+E.&ln=Blythe&st=r&ssrc=&pid=14336978 1880 Census of Tippah County, Mississippi] showing "Thomas Blythe, 51, Farmer AL/TN/TN; Elizabeth 49, wife TN/NC/NC; Martha 25 daughter; Mary 22 daughter, C Columbus, 12, son; Henry Blythe 28, son MS/AL/SC; Francis E, 21 MS/TN/SC, daug law, Laura E 4 G Daughter, Mary E 3 G Daughter"
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==Edna Earl Adams==
 
==Edna Earl Adams==
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==Mrs Elizabeth Blythe==
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==Eliza Emily Lockhart==
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==George Washington Cassidy==
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==Nancy Ann Snellgrove==
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==William James Russell==
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==Mary Elizabeth Spradley==
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==James B Grisham==
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==Hester Rebecca Mitchell==
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==Martin Franklin Adams==
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==Sarah Jane May==
  
 
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