Her parents divorced, and her father quickly remarried, then moved to Boca Raton with his young wife. Lollie’s mother brought home a new spouse as well. Lollie would later reveal—and only to a few of her closest friends—that that’s when the sexual abuse started. According to those same friends, she tried once—and only once—to tell her mother what was happening in her bed. The response she got was harsh enough to never try again. (Laura Winans and her second husband divorced after Lollie’s death. Laura died in 2011; he died a few years later. Shortly thereafter, Lollie’s father was diagnosed
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