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Article: Mama's own; Separately, Emma and Daunte Culpepper are adoptive mother and son. Together, as Mama and baby, their lives tell a story that wouldn't exist without either's lifelong love and devotion.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- April 26, 1999
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No matter which direction you take to Daunte Culpepper's story, all roads lead to the same destination.
To tell it, and tell it right, you have to start here, where he did, at Emma Culpepper's tired little house on NW 7th Street.
To find it, and her, you have to navigate Interstate 75 and then State Road 200 in Florida's midsection, winding north on Martin Luther King Boulevard, past the convenience stores, vacant lots and small businesses that line that main thoroughfare. On the left, three or four blocks down NW 7th Street, sits the Culpepper home, where Emma has lived for more than 50 years.
Just inside the door and to the left sits ...