The_Philster
06-09-2003, 07:22 PM
When Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper came to Minnesota fresh out of college, he knew he wanted to contribute to the community. He just didn't know exactly how.
Then he got a call from Marquita Stephens, president of the African American Adoption and Permanency Planning Agency, a state agency focused on placing minority children in permanent homes.
From there, Culpepper knew he had a cause - one he knows on a deeply personal level. He was born in a Florida prison to a woman serving a sentence for armed robbery, and taken in when he was just one day old by a 62-year-old woman named Emma Culpepper, who had already raised 12 other kids...
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Then he got a call from Marquita Stephens, president of the African American Adoption and Permanency Planning Agency, a state agency focused on placing minority children in permanent homes.
From there, Culpepper knew he had a cause - one he knows on a deeply personal level. He was born in a Florida prison to a woman serving a sentence for armed robbery, and taken in when he was just one day old by a 62-year-old woman named Emma Culpepper, who had already raised 12 other kids...
more (http://www.startribune.com/stories/510/3927530.html)