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Gospel and soul artist and celebrity mom Cissy Houston had never planned to add author to her resume. But she also didn’t expect her famous daughter Whitney Houston would die at 48, leaving behind a legacy of both enormous success and big struggles. The 79-year-old Cissy says “I was reading things about Whitney that weren’t true, and that’s when I decided that I needed to do something.” Her book, Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss and the Night the Music Stopped , is out this week.

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