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Torn between her African and English mums: Lola (Jaye) had an idyllic childhood - until the day social workers knocked at the door
Amanda Cable
2009
Lola Jaye was fostered as a baby by Sheila, a white English woman who gave her a loving and secure childhood, until social workers intervened at age nine and sent her to live with her Nigerian birth mother. After a traumatic year in Nigeria, Lola returned to Sheila, and despite navigating two cultures and two mothers, she built a successful life as a psychotherapist while affirming that love, not race or circumstance, defined her true family bond.
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