Throughout your life, your Dad taught you a lot.
He was the one holding the back of your bike the first time without training wheels. He showed you how to change a tire. He taught you to make funny sounds, one specialty in the kitchen, and the checkbook balance.
Without Dad’s influence, there’d be a lot of knowledge you’d be without—but in the new book “Cold Sweat,” you’ll see that there was one legacy Yamma Brown (with Robin Gaby Fisher) wishes her father had never left her.
Yamma Brown still carries a lot of guilt.
She says she only lived “a few miles” from the Augusta hospital where her father James Brown was taken on Christmas Eve 2006, but she still had baking and wrapping to do that night. She told him she’d see him in the morning—but for The Godfather of Soul, there was no morning.
“I had so many sweet memories of Dad,” she says.
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