He was the only child of Bert, a factory worker, and Doris, whose mother had been the mayor of the Municipal Borough of Walthamstow (which is now part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest).

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When she divorced her husband, the family moved to the suburbs and the boy was sent to a Catholic school, where he was the only black child in the class.

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He had married and fathered a child when he was only 18 but the relationship fell apart and his wife left him with their infant son.

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Ms Donovan was shot by the unstable wife of a patient and she died at the scene, with Mr Harper delivering her unborn child, whom he thought was his - only to learn later that he was not the father.

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"Not only because the father was your husband and he had fathered another child outside your marriage, but also because you had been trying, unsuccessfully, to have a fourth child with your husband".

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Mr. Winters was born Nov. 11, 1925, in Dayton, Ohio and grew up during the Depression as an only child whose parents divorced when he was 7.

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However, he cautioned that severe drooling should only be treated if it was a problem for the child rather than for purely aesthetic reasons.

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Ahmer, an only child from Lahore, left Pakistan when he was 14 after his parents feared the family's lives were in danger.

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