Sick woman in Georgia



While Willie Williams always sat hunched up all day staring blankly at a picture of Martin Luther King, his wife Julia was lying in bed - sick and debilitated from hunger. She couldn’t afford special diabetic food as they only received $72 a month. They were lonesome and forsaken, forgotten by society in a world of emptiness only interrupted by the cheerless dripping of rain through the ceiling. In 1978 they were both in a nursing home, where they were proudly handed my book when the local media did a full-page story about how they became famous in Europe – the only fame and attention they got in their life.
 

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