My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she n

My mom, God rest her soul – she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip. – Henry Louis Gates

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