Family
Jul. 8, 1999
Against All Odds
Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Sheila B. Allen has beaten tremendous odds all her life. Leaving a large family she calls "damaged" at the age of 16, Allen lived on her own in a fifth-floor walk-up tenement in New York's upper east side, graduating from Catholic High School while managing microfiche files at a local hospital.
Leaving a large family she calls "damaged" at the age of 16, Allen lived on her own in a fifth-floor walk-up tenement in New York's upper east sid...
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