REEL SOUTH

My father turned to me and said, I want to let you know, if it ever happens to you, don't worry about it. I'll be there for you. How ironic that I turned 16, my father passed away. And a month later, it did happen to me. And of course, he was not there. That I, daughter of Louis Armstrong, became pregnant as a teen should come as neither shock nor surprise. The statistics tell the story. Children in single-parent households are more likely to get pregnant as teenagers than their peers who grow up with two parents. No one noticed the promiscuity, the exploitation. -

Louis Armstrong on tape

Well, I'll be seeing you, frulein. That's what they call the ladies over here, "frulein" My life of secrecy continued in a new chapter, the secret child now having a secret child.