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Galen
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Ethel, the wife of their cousin Galen, had recently come to Turner Station from Clover, and she hated Henrietta—her cousins always said it was jealousy.†
Chpt 1.5 *
Galen, that husband of Ethel's, he was likin Hennie more than he like Ethel.†
Chpt 1.5
Everywhere she go, there go Galen—he tried to stay up at Hennie house all the time when Day gone to work.†
Chpt 1.5
They called her "that hateful woman," and when she and her husband, Galen, moved into the house, saying they were there to help with the children, Sadie and Margaret figured Ethel was trying to move in on Day.†
Chpt 2.15
Soon, stories began spreading about Ethel sleeping with Day instead of Galen.†
Chpt 2.15
Ethel's husband, Galen, was Deborah's biggest problem, and he found her wherever she went.†
Chpt 2.15
She tried to tell Day when Galen touched her in ways she didn't think he was supposed to, but Day never believed her.†
Chpt 2.15
In the car with Day driving and Ethel in the passenger seat, and everybody drinking except her, Deborah would sit in the back, pressed against the car door to get as far from Galen as she could.†
Chpt 2.15
As Day drove with his arm around Ethel in front, Galen would grab Deborah in the backseat, forcing his hands under her shirt, in her pants, between her legs.†
Chpt 2.15
So Deborah would just stare out the window, praying for Day to drive faster as she pushed Galen's hands away again and again.†
Chpt 2.15
When Deborah got to Galen's house, she found him lying naked on the bed.†
Chpt 2.15
"Ethel want a six-pack of soda," Galen told Deborah, then patted the mattress beside him.†
Chpt 2.15
Despite the beating and the molesting, Deborah felt closer to Galen than she ever had to Day.†
Chpt 2.15
When he wasn't hitting her, Galen showered her with attention and gifts.†
Chpt 2.15
But after he chased her through the house naked, it didn't seem worth it, and eventually she told Galen she didn't want any more gifts.†
Chpt 2.15
She'd try to walk home alone after work, but Galen would usually pick her up along the way and try to touch her in the car.†
Chpt 2.15
Galen jammed the car into park and yelled, "You get in this damn car girl!"†
Chpt 2.15
A few weeks later, as Deborah walked home from work with a neighborhood boy named Alfred "Cheetah" Carter, Galen pulled up alongside them, yelling at her to get in the car.†
Chpt 2.15
When Deborah refused, Galen raced up the street, tires screaming.†
Chpt 2.15
Galen jumped out of the car, cussing and screaming and telling her she was a whore.†
Chpt 2.15
But she didn't know about Galen hurting Deborah, because Deborah never told anyone—she was afraid she'd get in trouble.†
Chpt 2.15
Now, I know you love Galen like he your father, but you got to tell me what's goin on.†
Chpt 2.15
Deborah told Bobbette that Galen had hit her, and that he sometimes talked dirty to her in the car.†
Chpt 2.15
She said nothing about Galen touching her, because she was sure Bobbette would kill him and she worried that with Galen dead and Bobbette in jail for murdering him, she'd have lost the two people who cared for her most in the world.†
Chpt 2.15
She said nothing about Galen touching her, because she was sure Bobbette would kill him and she worried that with Galen dead and Bobbette in jail for murdering him, she'd have lost the two people who cared for her most in the world.†
Chpt 2.15
Bobbette stormed over to Galen and Ethel's house, and burst in their front door screaming that if either of them touched one of those Lacks children again, she'd kill them herself.†
Chpt 2.15
Deborah wasn't thinking about having babies anytime soon, but by the time she turned thirteen she was thinking about marrying that neighbor boy everyone called Cheetah, mainly because she thought Galen would have to stop touching her if she had a husband.†
Chpt 2.15
On November 10, 1966, Deborah gave birth to Alfred Jr., who she named after his father, Alfred "Cheetah" Carter, the boy Galen had once been jealous of.†
Chpt 2.19

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(1) (Galen of ancient Greece)
Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200)

Since dissection of the human body was illegal in the Rome of Galen's time, he developed much of his understanding of anatomy by dissecting animals and by serving as a physician in a gladiator school.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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