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Article: Remembering Sugar Ray: Edna Mae Robinson recalls the glitter and pain of her past.
- Article from:
- Ebony
- Article date:
- December 1, 1989
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Remembering Sugar Ray
ALMOST every corner of the sunlit dining room in Edna Mae Robinson's Manhattan apartment is crowded with remainders of the man who--even from the grave--looms larger than life in her world. The smiling visage of boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson stares from several portraits in the well-appointed room, proof positive that neither divorce nor death has broken the bond that once linked the former welterweight and five-time middleweight champion to this woman, the second of his three wives.
Today, more than two and a half decaes after their stormy marriage dissolved in divorce, and nearly a year since Ray Robinson succumbed to the ...
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