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This book started out to be a recapitulation of the phenomenal rise to success of my cousin Robert battle who was tapped by the internationally known dancer Judith Jamison to succeed her as only the third artistic direction of the famed Alvin Ailey American dance theater........but somewhere along the way came the realization that Robert's story could not be complete Without including the story of my parents, Anna and Willie Horne, two not unflawed individuals who endured all the indignities of ""second class citizenship"" but who, nevertheless, passed on to their children-----my brother Jack, my younger sister Bernice, and me---the best family values of which they were capable.

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Dessie Horne Williams is a recently turned ninety year old retired English teacher who plied her in the Miami-Dade County Public System for thirty-two years. a 1957 graduate of Tallahassee's Florida A&M University, Ms. Williams is the divorced mother` of two biological adult children, a son Lynell Bernard Jordan and a daughter, Rosemarie Williams (deceased); additionally, Williams is also the ""adopted"" mother of her second cousin, Robert Louis Battle. A lover of all things artistic, Williams has devoted her life to the pursuit of the joys found in literature, music, and the performing arts, and considers a moment a sixties Q and A session when her screen idol Bette Davis answered her question one of the high points of her life. Currently residing in Miami, Florida. Williams is, and has been for the past sixty years, the minister of music at Miami's Wactor Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

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