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Thirty-five years ago, Natasha Trethewey 's stepfather shot and killed her mother outside of her home in a suburb of Atlanta. On seeing footage of herself on TV walking into her home with the caption, "daughter of the murdered woman". This is where it begins, my estrangement from myself. If you go out there and put a picture of me in the paper, I cant take a subway for two weeks because some fat person will decide to say, I know you, and youre a piece of s--t. . In the September 1985 term, a DeKalb County grand jury indicted Grimmette for malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault, terroristic threat, and two counts of burglary. Interracial marriage was illegal in Mississippi when Natasha Tretheweys parents, Gwendolyn and Eric, met there at college in the mid-1960s, so they crossed the river into Cincinnati, Ohio, to wed. After they divorced in 1972 Gwendolyn moved with her daughter to the more racially progressive Atlanta, Georgia, where she took a masters degree in social work and began a successful career. You are ashamed and you dont know why. And I knew that there had been anti-miscegenation laws in Mississippi. Now Natasha Trethewey has written a memoir of her childhood, the murder of her mother, and her own calling as a poet. Grimmette was born in Saranac Lake, New York. He attempts to kill Gwendolyn and is sent to prison, but is soon released. Brown, from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, averaged 6.9 points, 3.3 rebounds and a team-best 3.2 assists this season. What did she die of? Knowing that what had happened was between us alone, I was determined to respond on my own. I knew immediately something must be wrong but I didnt want to let on that I was worried. In 2010, after almost five years of rehabilitation and intense physical therapy, Joey was medically discharged from the Marine Corps as a sergeant. In the poem "Articulation," Natasha Trethewey writes of the violent death of her mother, and how that forever shaped her own life and work. Because I think that had he killed me, then he would have been arrested for that, and she'd be the one alive today. There I was in a hotel room that the police put us up in to hide because they hadn't captured Joel yet. That saved my life': an extract from Natasha Trethewey's Memorial Drive.