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When five-year-old Donna-Marie presses her face against a chain-link fence and meets the boy next door, neither of them knows what's coming. He's seven years old with ears too big for his face and a secret about a book called Neverland. She's loud and curious and completely herself.
His name is Michael Jackson.
This is the story of the woman who knew him first.
Spanning sixty-five years from a backyard in Gary, Indiana to the 2026 BET Awards, Donna-Marie follows one woman's life alongside the most famous man in the world. Her career. Her column. Her agency. Her four sons. Her walk that became the standard. And the love story that started at a fence and never really ended.
This is not Michael Jackson's story.
It's hers.
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