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(CNN) -- Doctor James Braude leads a group medical practice in an elegant Atlanta, Georgia, office decorated with designer furnishings. It doesn't look like a charity asking for handouts. But it is asking.

Obama, pictured July 1 in Virginia, has been touring the states to promote his plan to voters.

"On some days we've counted up to 30 patients a day who've lost their jobs and their health insurance," Braude said.

So Braude and his colleagues offer as much free care as they can afford. The doctors have also begun discreetly inviting paying patients to contribute to a fund, helping more people get care they haven't got the money for.

"We're doctors. We're addicted to helping people. And when we can't, we go through withdrawal."

Millions of Americans have always gone without the kind of routine medical care that is seen as a basic right in many countries. The U.S. economic downturn -- meaning people lose health insurance when they lose their job -- and the election of President Barack Obama have coincided to increase both the need and the opportunity to address the plight of uninsured America.

Obama's ambition is to provide insurance for the estimated 50 million Americans without coverage.  Watch why many in rural U.S. have concerns Â»

The insurance is expected to cover doctors, hospital care and prescription drugs. But just about every detail is still being negotiated so it's not certain who would be covered, what they would be covered for or whether people who don't want insurance would be forced to have it and pay for it.

The plans that emerge could become the Obama administration's most ambitious domestic program and potentially a big, early test of his presidency.

American medical care needs attention

Even though nearly 50 million of its roughly 300 million people have no routine health care, the United States spends more going to the doctor than any other industrialized nation in the world. Fully one-sixth of the economy is devoted to it.

Under the current hybrid system, the U.S. Government pays for health care for ex-military, the extremely poor and the elderly.

But the vast majority of Americans have to pay for their own health care and most do it where they work; many employers arrange health insurance and partly subsidize the premiums.

The rapidly rising cost is crushing all kinds of businesses, from car companies to family farms. At the same time, hospitals and doctors say they are falling behind because the payments they receive from insurance companies aren't keeping up with their costs.

"Within a decade we will be spending one out of every five dollars we earn on health care," Obama said recently. "In 30 years, it will be one out of every three. That is untenable, that is unacceptable, and I will not allow it as president of the United States."

The politics: Deep disagreement

There is a lot of disagreement about what to do. Congress has the job of actually turning the push for change into a functioning government program. Democratic lawmakers don't all support the president's plan or agree on how to pay for it.

Republicans are split in a different way. Some lawmakers are trying to influence the Democrats' plans and others are proposing entirely different alternatives.

"If you look at their plan, it really is a big government-run plan that will take control of the delivery of health care in America," said Republican congressional leader John Boehner. His suggestion: "Improve the current system so it works better."

The most profound disagreement centers on whether Washington should create its own new health-insurance concern to compete with the private companies that provide insurance now. Obama and many Democrats favor it; Republicans are dead set against it.

Part of the problem is that insurance companies fear the government will put them out of business, by favoring or subsidizing its own scheme.

The other part of the problem is more basic and ideological. The U.S. government already runs enormous health-insurance programs for the poor, the elderly and military veterans -- but many Americans see potentially mandatory government health-insurance as the foreign-born offspring of socialist states.

The economics: More debt

Political opposition notwithstanding, the economics are going to be a problem too. Health care is a $2 trillion-dollar-a-year industry that would have to expand to cover millions of people who are now uninsured.

The president has some ideas for new efficiencies but most estimates suggest the total cost of caring for Americans would rise dramatically. Washington is already carrying record debt and would have to find a way to pay for it.

One assessment by the Congressional Budget Office of the Senate Democrat plan estimated it would cost more than $1 trillion over 10 years and only provide coverage for about 16 million Americans.

There's also the possibility that the impact of reform on many employers and virtually every wage-earner across the country will have a spillover effect on the economy as a whole, still lodged in recession.

The health care industry: Undecided

Then there is the place where the politics and the economy overlap: the health care industry.

Doctors alone have spent roughly two-thirds of a billion dollars lobbying lawmakers in the last 10 years, according to the independent Center for Responsive Politics. Add pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, nurses and other health care professionals and you get one of the most influential forces in U.S. politics.

They successfully organized to defeat health care reform when the Clinton administration tried it 15 years ago.

The industry benefits from one crucial thing: Americans like their doctors.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released July 1 found 54 percent of people worry that their health care costs would go up if the administration's proposals get passed and only one in five thinks that his or her families would be better off under the Obama plan.

With all that in mind, Atlanta's Dr. Braude says he's optimistic the reform can succeed. If not, he says, "we go back to the same system and we have 50 million people without insurance, which means you are one brain tumor away from bankruptcy."

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(CNN) -- The Republican National Convention is kicking off in full force Tuesday in the Twin Cities -- the first time the GOP has held a presidential convention there since 1892.

Laura Bush and Cindy McCain speak at a shortened first day of the Republican National Convention Monday.

The convention, delayed briefly when  Hurricane Gustav hit the Gulf Coast, is also being held later in the year than any nominating convention in history.

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Location

The Republican National Convention is being held in the Xcel Energy Center, the home of the National Hockey League team the Minnesota Wild.

To prepare the Xcel center for the GOP convention, workers removed 3,000 seats and installed more than 25 miles of cable

Sen. Barack Obama gave his first speech as the Democrats' presumptive 2008 presidential nominee at the Xcel Center on June 3.

The Twin Cities and Denver have each received $50 million each in federal funds for convention security.

No Republican since Richard Nixon has carried Minnesota in a presidential general election -- the longest Democratic streak of any state in the nation.

The Delegates

About 2,300 delegates and 2,200 alternates delegates are expected to journey to the twin cities for the event, and the Minneapolis/St. Paul economy is expected to benefit to the tune of $150 to $160 million.

The Candidates, past and present

John McCain turned 72 last week; if elected, he'll be the oldest president sworn in to a first term.

Two GOP presidential nominees were older than McCain; Ronald Reagan was 73 in 1984 when he was running for his second term and Bob Dole was 73 in 1996. Dole lost that election to Bill Clinton.

John McCain was a prisoner of war in Vietnam from 1967 to 1973; his service awards include the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit and a Purple Heart.

McCain's father and grandfather were both U.S. Navy admirals; they were the first father and son to achieve that rank.

McCain represented Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1987; he has served in the U.S. Senate since 1987.

McCain was the presidential nominating speaker in 1996 for Sen. Robert Dole.

McCain clinched the Republican presidential nomination on March 4 after winning 26 primary season contests.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the second woman to serve on a major party ticket -- in 1984 Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman to serve on a major party ticket.

Palin is the first woman to serve as Alaska governor; she was elected in 2006, winning the election to the governorship as a maverick reformer willing to distance herself from the Republican Party.

McCain first met Palin at the National Governors Association meeting in Washington in February of 2008.

Conventions

National political conventions were covered on radio for the first time in 1924, and covered on television for the first time since 1948.

2008 marks the fourth time the parties have held back-to-back conventions; it also happened in 1912, 1916 and 1956.

The longest convention in history was the 1924 Democratic convention in New York -- It lasted 17 days. The shortest convention in history was the 1872 Democratic convention in Baltimore -- it only lasted six hours.

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Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The autopsy on Corey Haim revealed the actor's heart was enlarged and his lungs were filled with water when he died, Haim's manager said.

The Los Angeles County coroner told Haim's mother that her son suffered from pulmonary congestion, manager Mark Heaslip said.

Heaslip said this was evidence that Haim's death was not caused by a drug overdose, but Brian Elias with the coroner's office said they are waiting for toxicology tests before deciding what killed Haim.

The 1980s teen movie actor, who struggled for decades with drug addiction, died early Wednesday after collapsing in the Los Angeles apartment he shared with his mother, authorities said.

Longtime friend and frequent co-star Corey Feldman asked Wednesday that people not "jump the gun" to conclude a drug overdose killed Haim.

Heaslip, manager to both Feldman and Haim, said he seemed to be winning his battle against drug abuse in the weeks before his death.

Haim, 38, was taken to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, early Wednesday, where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. PT (5:15 a.m. ET), said Ed Winter, Los Angeles County deputy coroner.

Haim was in the apartment he shared with his mother, Judy Haim, when he "became a little dizzy, he kind of went to his knees in the bedroom," Winter said. "His mom assisted him in the bed. He became unresponsive."

His mother called paramedics to the apartment, which is between Hollywood Hills and Burbank, he said.

Haim had suffered from flulike symptoms for two days, the deputy coroner said.

"We found no illicit drugs. However, we did recover four of his prescription meds at the location," Winter said, adding he does not know what those drugs were.

Haim was "weaned down to literally zero medications" in the past two weeks by an addiction specialist, Heaslip said on HLN's "Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell" on Wednesday.

The doctor "put him on a new line of medications," Feldman said on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Wednesday.

Feldman pleaded with people not to draw conclusions that Haim died from a drug overdose. He said that until the autopsy report is issued, "nobody knows and nobody's going to know."

Watch Corey Feldman talk about his friend's death on "Larry King Live"

"I know that there were symptoms that he was showing that expressed it could be a number of things," Feldman said. "This could have been a kidney failure. This could have been a heart failure."

Heaslip that said Haim's mother, Judy, told him "there were no signs of him overdosing."

His death came as his career was picking up, with Haim booking "movie after movie," Heaslip said. His latest film is set for release soon, he said.

Haim "really became a man" in recent months as he helped his mother in her battle with cancer, Feldman said. "He's been there for her, taking care of her, being responsible," he said.

Feldman said he was angry about how Haim has been snubbed in recent years by the entertainment industry. He was broke, without a car and living in a month-to-month rental apartment with his mother, he said.

"We build people up as children, we put them on pedestals and then when we decide that they are not marketable anymore, we walk away from them," he said.

Haim's most famous role was in the 1987 movie "The Lost Boys," in which he appeared with Feldman. Haim played the role of a fresh-faced teenager whose brother becomes a vampire.

In later years, the two friends -- who appeared in eight movies together -- struggled with drug abuse and went their separate ways. They reunited for a reality show, "The Two Coreys," in 2007, but A&E Network canceled the program after slightly more than a year.

In a 2007 interview on CNN's "Larry King Live," Haim and Feldman discussed their battle with drugs. Feldman told King that he had gotten clean, but it took Haim longer.

Haim called himself "a chronic relapser for the rest of my life."

"I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything," he said. "I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently."

In 2008, Feldman told People magazine that he would no longer speak to Haim until his former co-star got sober. In a clip from "The Two Coreys," Feldman and his wife, along with two other former teen stars, called on Haim in an effort to get him to admit he needed help, the magazine said.

The meeting followed an incident in which Haim, scheduled to film a cameo appearance in a direct-to-DVD sequel to "The Lost Boys," appeared on the set "clearly under the influence," People reported.

Feldman told King on Wednesday that he renewed his contact with Haim in the past year because of the progress he made against his addiction.

Haim was born December 23, 1971, in Toronto, Ontario, according to a biography on his Web site. He made his first television appearance in 1982 on the Canadian series "The Edison Twins." His first film role was in the 1984 movie "First Born."

Haim also won rave reviews for his title role in the 1986 film "Lucas." Film critic Roger Ebert said of him at the time, "If he continues to act this well, he will never become a half-forgotten child star, but will continue to grow into an important actor."

Following "The Lost Boys," Haim and Feldman appeared in "License to Drive" and "Dream a Little Dream."

CNN's Brittany Kaplan contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- "All politics is local." That four-word statement, originally uttered by former Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill, is one of the favorite clichÃ©s of political pundits everywhere. But it's seldom respected when it matters most.

Consider, for instance, the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District, which conservative Democrat Bill Owens won in spite of partisan and nonpartisan polling that had shown Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman with a solid lead.

Almost overnight, Hoffman became a sort of folk hero among conservative activists around the country, a decidedly ordinary-looking man who seemed poised to take an extraordinary path into Washington. Some 95 percent of his fundraising came from outside the district.

Hoffman, indeed, had some initial success. The original Republican nominee, Dede Scozzafava, dropped out of the race after polling showed her trailing both Hoffman and Owens. But when push came to shove, Hoffman lost.

Why? Because those activists -- however well-meaning they might have been -- misunderstood the district. The 23rd is a Republican district, but it is not a particularly conservative one, having split its vote between Barack Obama and the moderate Republican John McHugh last November.

If Nancy Pelosi is regarded suspiciously in the 23rd, so are Sarah Palin and Fred Thompson, who cut commercials and robocalls on behalf of Hoffman. What the voters there wanted was a candidate who understood them. Owens -- superior to Hoffman in his command of local issues -- provided the best approximation.

Alternatively, consider the outcome in New Jersey, where Republican Chris Christie knocked off incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine. This election is being touted as a referendum on Obama, who took a risk -- a bad one, indeed -- by campaigning on behalf of Corzine.

But Obama was the least of Corzine's problems: Voters in Tuesday's election approved of Obama's performance 57 percent to 43 percent, according to exit polling. It was Corzine they didn't like; 27 percent of the voters who approved of Obama nevertheless found someone other than the Democratic incumbent to vote for.

Corzine, for his part, ran a polarizing campaign; every time Christie's name appeared in one of his commercials, it came with a scarlet (R) -- for Republican -- attached. Republicans are not popular in New Jersey, but local issues drove the race.

Whereas three-quarters of Corzine's voters cited a national issue -- health care or the economy -- as their primary reason for voting for him, two-thirds of Christie's picked a local one (property taxes and corruption).

There is a much stronger case that national factors were in play in Virginia. The voters who turned out there Tuesday were more likely to have supported John McCain than Obama last year. Obama carried the state by 6 percentage points last year. But exit polls found that 51 percent of this year's voters in Virginia were people who had voted for McCain.

Even a strong Democratic candidate would have struggled under the circumstances. But Democrats also made a mistake in thinking that Creigh Deeds, who hails from rural Bath County on the West Virginia border and wears his upbringing on his sleeve, would be the best candidate to represent them in the state.

In many other states -- Ohio, say --  it's the rural, working-class vote that swings elections. But that's not the case in Virginia, which is one of the wealthiest and most suburban states in the country. There, suburban moderates such as Mark Warner tend to do better. Deeds might have been the right candidate -- but he was in the wrong state.

State-level politics, indeed, routinely differ from national ones. That's why you have Democratic governors in red states such as Oklahoma and Wyoming, but Republican ones in blue states such as Vermont and Hawaii.

That does not mean that local elections can't tell us anything about national trends -- the White House would be feeling better, certainly, if Democrats had won New Jersey, and likewise Republicans if they'd won NY-23. But usually the party that applies a one-size-fits-all approach to local races is the losing one.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Nate Silver.

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexico has fired more than 700 customs agents and replaced them with better-trained and educated workers who officials hope will be less likely to give in to the temptation of bribery and other crimes.

Cars cross the border into Mexico at the customs post in Tijuana on Monday.

The new agents were trained by the army to detect the smuggling of weapons, drugs, pirated products and other items, which has increased in recent years due to corruption. But Mexican Department of Customs officials were quick to point out that the military is not taking over at the nation's 49 customs posts.

"They are not military," said Customs Chief Juan Jose Bravo. "They are practically professional, most of them in outside commerce, in similar careers, who are qualified to work in customs matters."

All the new agents underwent psychological exams, drug screenings and background checks, Mexican officials said.

The new recruits are between the ages of 18 and 30; 65 percent are men and 35 percent are women.

Authorities also want to improve the Customs Department's image. The department is part of the Federal Mexican Government Ministry of Commerce and Industrial Development.

"Of course, the outside perception held by many about officials, and particularly this group, was of high corruption," Bravo said. "We did this, fundamentally, because we wanted to professionalize new training with a new plan."

But some security experts believe that replacing the customs agents will not resolve the problem of corruption.

"It's been perfectly demonstrated that that changing people can be absolutely futile if the structures keep functioning the same way," said Ernesto Lopez Portillo, executive director of the Institute for Security and Democracy. "Because the structures, the protocols, the systems are what allow people to comply with regulations."

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- TV dance judge Mary Murphy said singer Chris Brown's attack on his girlfriend, Rihanna, prompted her to talk publicly about spousal abuse that she says she suffered first as a teenage bride three decades ago.

Mary Murphy says she was abused by her ex-husband during their nine-year marriage.

Murphy -- the vivacious judge on Fox TV's "So You Think You Can Dance" -- told CNN's Larry King that she wants other victims to learn from how she endured, but escaped, domestic violence.

Discovering her talent with dance eventually changed her life and helped her flee the relationship after nine years, she said.

Her ex-husband strongly denied that he ever physically or mentally abused Murphy, whom he married in 1978 soon after they met as teenagers in college.

"I did just tuck it away and just buried it and went on with my life and I thought that, you know, I could leave it there and I wanted to leave it there until my father died a couple years ago," Murphy said.  Watch Murphy discuss abuse in her marriage Â»

Discussions with her dying father led to him apologizing for not being "my knight in shining armor" by intervening, she said.

But Murphy said seeing a photo of singer Rihanna's bruised face, taken soon after Brown's admitted attack last February, convinced her to go public with the story.

"I still had no intention to talk to anybody until I saw Rihanna's face and seeing that just brought it all up."

"Abuse, it just survives and thrives in silence," Murphy said.

US Weekly magazine's current issue offers a detailed version of Murphy's revelations in its cover story.

Murphy tells the magazine about a whirlwind romance that began in 1977 when she was a 19-year-old Ohio State University student -- swept off her feet by an 18-year-old who was "extraordinarily handsome."

She told King that the marriage began "getting out of control" after just three months when her husband's jealously triggered fights.

"It increased until we started to have just horrible fights," she said. "And then at the time, after a fight in which I didn't want to have sex, it just escalated to the point that he literally had to rape me in order for me to have sex."

When a neighbor called police to her home, Murphy said she was too frightened to press charges.

"I looked at him and with the look on his face, I said 'absolutely not' and went back in my room and just laid there and cried," she said.

Murphy said she left her husband several times over the nine-year marriage, but "there weren't the shelters that there are today."

"I did try to leave, and I was having a hard time making it, and he would sweet talk me and I would go back" she said. "It was back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And I don't feel really proud of that."

Murphy discovered her talent and love of dance several years into the marriage when she took a summer job at a dance studio while her husband was away for several months running the family's business in the Middle East, she said.

"It made me feel beautiful instead of how I was probably really feeling inside, totally ashamed and dirty," she said.

Their marriage ended only after she and her husband renewed their vows in a wedding ceremony in front of his family and friends in Amman, Jordan, in 1985.

She learned he had a girlfriend -- to whom he was engaged -- in the Middle East. It was his infidelity that convinced her to divorce him, she said.

Her former husband -- who spoke to Larry King off the air -- said he was "totally shocked" by Murphy's account of their marriage. "I never harmed her," he said.

"If all of these allegations are true, she could have had me deported," he said. He is not a U.S. citizen.

He questioned if her motivation was "more fame or sympathy."

Still, he said he is "very, very proud" of her.

Murphy told King his response is what she expected.

"I think a lot of men out there, by the way, that when they do get married they feel like this is their right to do whatever they want to do, and it's not," she said. "And I was a scared, frightened person."

Murphy said she is still afraid of her former husband.

"I'm not going to lie to you that he still scares me," she said. "I still live in fear that he will do something to me, that I will go missing."

Fear of not being able to make it on her own still drives her today, she said.

"I put this behind me, went out and worked like I've never worked before," she said. "And I still work today like I could still be homeless."

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text: wants

text: other

text: victims

text: to

text: learn

text: from

text: how

text: she

text: endured

text: but

text: escaped

text: domestic

text: violence

text: Discovering

text: her

text: talent

text: with

text: dance

text: eventually

text: changed

text: her

text: life

text: and

text: helped

text: her

text: flee

text: the

text: relationship

text: after

text: nine

text: years

text: she

text: said

text: Her

text: ex

text: husband

text: strongly

text: denied

text: that

text: he

text: ever

text: physically

text: or

text: mentally

text: abused

text: Murphy

text: whom

text: he

text: married

text: in

text: soon

text: after

text: they

text: met

text: as

text: teenagers

text: in

text: college

text: I

text: did

text: just

text: tuck

text: it

text: away

text: and

text: just

text: buried

text: it

text: and

text: went

text: on

text: with

text: my

text: life

text: and

text: I

text: thought

text: that

text: you

text: know

text: I

text: could

text: leave

text: it

text: there

text: and

text: I

text: wanted

text: to

text: leave

text: it

text: there

text: until

text: my

text: father

text: died

text: a

text: couple

text: years

text: ago

text: Murphy

text: said

text: Watch

text: Murphy

text: discuss

text: abuse

text: in

text: her

text: marriage

text: Â

text: Discussions

text: with

text: her

text: dying

text: father

text: led

text: to

text: him

text: apologizing

text: for

text: not

text: being

text: my

text: knight

text: in

text: shining

text: armor

text: by

text: intervening

text: she

text: said

text: But

text: Murphy

text: said

text: seeing

text: a

text: photo

text: of

text: singer

text: Rihanna

text: 's

text: bruised

text: face

text: taken

text: soon

text: after

text: Brown

text: 's

text: admitted

text: attack

text: last

text: February

text: convinced

text: her

text: to

text: go

text: public

text: with

text: the

text: story

text: I

text: still

text: had

text: no

text: intention

text: to

text: talk

text: to

text: anybody

text: until

text: I

text: saw

text: Rihanna

text: 's

text: face

text: and

text: seeing

text: that

text: just

text: brought

text: it

text: all

text: up

text: Abuse

text: it

text: just

text: survives

text: and

text: thrives

text: in

text: silence

text: Murphy

text: said

text: US

text: Weekly

text: magazine

text: 's

text: current

text: issue

text: offers

text: a

text: detailed

text: version

text: of

text: Murphy

text: 's

text: revelations

text: in

text: its

text: cover

text: story

text: Murphy

text: tells

text: the

text: magazine

text: about

text: a

text: whirlwind

text: romance

text: that

text: began

text: in

text: when

text: she

text: was

text: a

text: old

text: Ohio

text: State

text: University

text: student

text: swept

text: off

text: her

text: feet

text: by

text: an

text: old

text: who

text: was

text: extraordinarily

text: handsome

text: She

text: told

text: King

text: that

text: the

text: marriage

text: began

text: getting

text: out

text: of

text: control

text: after

text: just

text: three

text: months

text: when

text: her

text: husband

text: 's

text: jealously

text: triggered

text: fights

text: It

text: increased

text: until

text: we

text: started

text: to

text: have

text: just

text: horrible

text: fights

text: she

text: said

text: And

text: then

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: after

text: a

text: fight

text: in

text: which

text: I

text: did

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: have

text: sex

text: it

text: just

text: escalated

text: to

text: the

text: point

text: that

text: he

text: literally

text: had

text: to

text: rape

text: me

text: in

text: order

text: for

text: me

text: to

text: have

text: sex

text: When

text: a

text: neighbor

text: called

text: police

text: to

text: her

text: home

text: Murphy

text: said

text: she

text: was

text: too

text: frightened

text: to

text: press

text: charges

text: I

text: looked

text: at

text: him

text: and

text: with

text: the

text: look

text: on

text: his

text: face

text: I

text: said

text: absolutely

text: not

text: and

text: went

text: back

text: in

text: my

text: room

text: and

text: just

text: laid

text: there

text: and

text: cried

text: she

text: said

text: Murphy

text: said

text: she

text: left

text: her

text: husband

text: several

text: times

text: over

text: the

text: nine

text: year

text: marriage

text: but

text: there

text: were

text: n't

text: the

text: shelters

text: that

text: there

text: are

text: today

text: I

text: did

text: try

text: to

text: leave

text: and

text: I

text: was

text: having

text: a

text: hard

text: time

text: making

text: it

text: and

text: he

text: would

text: sweet

text: talk

text: me

text: and

text: I

text: would

text: go

text: back

text: she

text: said

text: It

text: was

text: back

text: and

text: forth

text: back

text: and

text: forth

text: back

text: and

text: forth

text: And

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: feel

text: really

text: proud

text: of

text: that

text: Murphy

text: discovered

text: her

text: talent

text: and

text: love

text: of

text: dance

text: several

text: years

text: into

text: the

text: marriage

text: when

text: she

text: took

text: a

text: summer

text: job

text: at

text: a

text: dance

text: studio

text: while

text: her

text: husband

text: was

text: away

text: for

text: several

text: months

text: running

text: the

text: family

text: 's

text: business

text: in

text: the

text: Middle

text: East

text: she

text: said

text: It

text: made

text: me

text: feel

text: beautiful

text: instead

text: of

text: how

text: I

text: was

text: probably

text: really

text: feeling

text: inside

text: totally

text: ashamed

text: and

text: dirty

text: she

text: said

text: Their

text: marriage

text: ended

text: only

text: after

text: she

text: and

text: her

text: husband

text: renewed

text: their

text: vows

text: in

text: a

text: wedding

text: ceremony

text: in

text: front

text: of

text: his

text: family

text: and

text: friends

text: in

text: Amman

text: Jordan

text: in

text: She

text: learned

text: he

text: had

text: a

text: girlfriend

text: to

text: whom

text: he

text: was

text: engaged

text: in

text: the

text: Middle

text: East

text: It

text: was

text: his

text: infidelity

text: that

text: convinced

text: her

text: to

text: divorce

text: him

text: she

text: said

text: Her

text: former

text: husband

text: who

text: spoke

text: to

text: Larry

text: King

text: off

text: the

text: air

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: totally

text: shocked

text: by

text: Murphy

text: 's

text: account

text: of

text: their

text: marriage

text: I

text: never

text: harmed

text: her

text: he

text: said

text: If

text: all

text: of

text: these

text: allegations

text: are

text: true

text: she

text: could

text: have

text: had

text: me

text: deported

text: he

text: said

text: He

text: is

text: not

text: a

text: U.S.

text: citizen

text: He

text: questioned

text: if

text: her

text: motivation

text: was

text: more

text: fame

text: or

text: sympathy

text: Still

text: he

text: said

text: he

text: is

text: very

text: very

text: proud

text: of

text: her

text: Murphy

text: told

text: King

text: his

text: response

text: is

text: what

text: she

text: expected

text: I

text: think

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: men

text: out

text: there

text: by

text: the

text: way

text: that

text: when

text: they

text: do

text: get

text: married

text: they

text: feel

text: like

text: this

text: is

text: their

text: right

text: to

text: do

text: whatever

text: they

text: want

text: to

text: do

text: and

text: it

text: 's

text: not

text: she

text: said

text: And

text: I

text: was

text: a

text: scared

text: frightened

text: person

text: Murphy

text: said

text: she

text: is

text: still

text: afraid

text: of

text: her

text: former

text: husband

text: I

text: 'm

text: not

text: going

text: to

text: lie

text: to

text: you

text: that

text: he

text: still

text: scares

text: me

text: she

text: said

text: I

text: still

text: live

text: in

text: fear

text: that

text: he

text: will

text: do

text: something

text: to

text: me

text: that

text: I

text: will

text: go

text: missing

text: Fear

text: of

text: not

text: being

text: able

text: to

text: make

text: it

text: on

text: her

text: own

text: still

text: drives

text: her

text: today

text: she

text: said

text: I

text: put

text: this

text: behind

text: me

text: went

text: out

text: and

text: worked

text: like

text: I

text: 've

text: never

text: worked

text: before

text: she

text: said

text: And

text: I

text: still

text: work

text: today

text: like

text: I

text: could

text: still

text: be

text: homeless

question: who was an abused teenage bride?

answer: Mary Murphy

text: Mary Murphy

question: who did chris brown abuse?

answer: girlfriend, Rihanna,

text: girlfriend, Rihanna,

question: What year did she marry her abuser?

answer: 1978

question: What happened to Mary Murphy as  a teenager

answer: spousal abuse

text: spousal abuse

question: Was she physically abused as a teen?

answer: by her ex-husband during their nine-year marriage.

text: by her ex-husband during their nine-year marriage.

question: How long was she in relationship for?

answer: nine-year marriage.

text: nine-year marriage.