![]() “I have fond memories of being young,” Lennox told me years ago. Violet Blake cheers her son on during his fight with Tony Tucker for the WBC heavyweight championship on. On 2 September 1965, Lennox Claudius Lewis, was born. He was the only man I really really cared for. I’m married and I can’t marry you.’ It was a great shock for me. Then, when I told him I was pregnant with Lennox, he said, ‘I’m sorry, Vi. It turned out that he was married, but I didn’t know. “I was madly in love with him, though we never lived together. ![]() ![]() Then Carlton Brooks, another Jamaican living in London, entered her life. You think, if you don’t love him at first, if you live together, you may grow to love him. “I liked him as a brother, but I didn’t love him. “Rupert was good to us,” she later reminisced. Soon after the birth, Violet returned to work on a night shift at the hospital. The father was Rupert Daries a Jamaican who was working as a swimming instructor in London. On 27 April 1962, her first child (Dennis Stephen) was born. She lived briefly with Gee and then in a rented room while working as a nurse’s aid. In 1956, Violet moved to London, where Aunt Gee had relocated with her husband.
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