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Eula Biss

Eula Biss is a nonfiction writer and author of The Balloonists. "Relations" is a part of a collection forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2009. Her essays have recently appeared in the Believer, Columbia, and Ninth Letter.

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Relations

By Eula Biss | Published: March 17, 2008

In New York City, in the spring of 1999, a story hit the newspapers of a Long Island woman who had given birth to twins–one white and one black. The woman and her husband were white and the black baby was not theirs…