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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Henrietta Lacks Chapter 29-32 Timeline

Chapter 29
Ten months after the first conversation on the phone with Deborah--Skloot gets a call from Deborah, after almost a year.
July 9, 2000--Rebecca Skloot and Deborah meet each other for the first time, face to face.

Deborah wants to work with Rebecca on the book; they agree on a collaboration on July 9, 2000 near the Baltimore harbor.  
Chapter 30
2000--Skloot meets Zakariyya.

With Deborah as chauffeur and her grandsons Davon and Alfred as rear‐seat passengers, Rebecca goes to Zakariyya’s apartment so she can have the oppurtunity to interview Henrietta’s youngest son.
Chapter 31
April 2001--Deborah receives a call from the president of the National Foundation for Cancer Research. He wanted her to place her on the stage, for an event as a tribute to Henrietta.

Deborah becomes a historian, researcher, and investigator. 
Respectful of Deborah’s quandary as to whether Rebecca – or others – was being paid for Henrietta’s story, Rebecca agrees to build a Henrietta Lacks Descendants Scholarship when the book is published. Rebecca then introduces Deborah to the World Wide Web which shows Deborah to fascinating and long‐winded Henrietta and HeLa searches.
Chapter 32
May 11, 2001--Deborah, Skloot, and Zakariyya go to Johns Hopkins to see Henrietta's cells. Their "guide" is Christoph Lengauer. Henrietta cells have become a cure for cancer mainly because of the mothers cells.

Deborah, Zakariyya, and Rebecca all meet up with Christoph at the Johns Hopkins lab to investigate on the HeLa cells and work on their commerce.

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