huffingtonpost.com - 8/21/2008
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When Cindy McCain talks about growing up, she usually refers to herself as an "only child" -- a phrase that ignores the existence of her half sisters.
"It's terribly painful," Kathleen Hensley Portalski said yesterday. "It is as if she is the 'real' daughter. I am also a real daughter."
Portalski and McCain are both children of the late Jim Hensley, the Arizona businessman who founded ...
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... this week to correct the reporter who repeated Cindy McCain's characterization of herself as an only child. Cindy's father was married to Mary Jeanne Parks, who gave birth to Portalski before the couple's divorce. Hensley then married Marguerite Johnson, who bore Cindy McCain nine years later. Even before all this, Hensley already had a daughter , named Dixie Burd, by a third woman. In addition, Cindy is not the only child of her mother, who had ...
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... You know, $270,000 would buy a whole lot of arugula. That's elitism you can believe in. I'm only amazed they didn't employ a half-sister to clean out the septic tank. ...
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