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The book is divided into three sections. In the prologue, Rebecca Skloot, the author, describes a picture of Henrietta Lacks and briefly introduces her story and gives a basic idea of the HeLa cells. She also talks about how the cells got her interest and made she decided to write this book and describes she got the information by interview Henrietta Lacks’s families and the people who related to her. The first twelve chapters of the book are mainly about a forty-one years old black woman who named Henrietta Lacks found her aggressive cervical cancer and died on October 4th 1951. Before that she did several treatments at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Maryland. However, the thing she and her families did not know was that the scientists

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