Away from singing, Stone once said she would have become a social worker if her showbiz career had not taken off.

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He and his wife own a house and two cars and he is planning to return to college to become a social worker.

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And so the white widow of a railroad tycoon and a black social worker from Arkansas founded what would become the Urban League, to strengthen our cities and our communities brick by brick, and block by block, and neighborhood by neighborhood, life by life.

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