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Chapter 1: Nut Bush

• Anna Mae Bullock, later to be known as Tina turner, was born in the small farming community of Nutbush, Tennessee, on November 26, 1939.

• Tina was the younger daughter of Floyd Richard Bullock and his wife, Zelma. Anna's Mae's sister, Alline, was three years older than Anna Mae.

• Tina was born with light brown skin, reddish hair and Native American bone structure.
• Tina was an energetic child as opposed to the slower moving Alline.

• Tina loved her mother but felt she did not want a second child and felt a detachment from her that lingered for years.

Chapter 2: Childhood's End

• When World War II broke out in 1941, Tina's parents went to Nashville to work in a military materials plant so Tina stayed with her paternal grandmother for two years.

• Tina didn't like staying with her strict grandmother but delighted in the frenetic dancing of the Pentecostal Church...

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