2: Reporter PATRICE GAINES was a teen-age mother with a drug rap when she spent the summer of 1970 in jail. She is now a regular reporter for the "Washington Post," and has written a book about how she turned her life around. It's called "Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color-A Journey from Prison to Power" (Crown Publishers). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE ATC
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