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When Marion's parents came to the UK from Ghana to study in the early 1960's they fostered their daughter with a British family.
This was partly because of the accommodation problems experienced by students from overseas, and partly because it was deemed a good idea at the time for Marion to be given a good grounding in the British way of life.
So she found herself living with white foster parents in Sussex, the only black child in her neighbourhood. For the first years of her life, she didn't know that her foster parents weren't her real mum and dad.
David Stafford asks her how she found out.
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