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Marilyn Monroe: Mother
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Marilyn did not know her real father and she lived with foster parents until the age of 7. She then lived with her mother who suffered a breakdown and Marilyn was then brought up in an orphanage.
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The Goddards were about to move to the east coast and could not take Monroe. Grace approached the mother of a neighbor boy, James Dougherty, about the possibility of her son marrying the girl. They married weeks after she turned 16, so that Norma Jeane would not have to return to an orphanage or foster care.[16] Monroe stated in her autobiography that she did not feel like a wife; instead she enjoyed playing with the neighborhood children until her husband would call her home for the evening. The marriage would last until 1946 when Monroe decided to pursue her career.
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In her autobiography "My Story," she recounted her guardian told her she was a direct descendant of James Monroe. Her mother's maiden name was Monroe, but there is no evidence she was a descendant of the president.
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