Chapter 10: The Other Side of the Tracks

Rebecca Skloot traveled all the way down to Clover, Virginia to look for Lacks Town, an area where most of Henrietta's family lived. She traveled up and down the length of Lacks Town until a man nicknamed Cootie came out and asked her if she was lost. Cootie, or Henry Hector, was Henrietta's first cousin. He invited Rebecca in to tell her anything he we about Henrietta. He said that she was the type of person who cared for everyone, even when she was sick. He told Rebecca about how she helped care for him when his polio got bad, a disease that left him partially paralyzed in is neck and arms and had him in and out of hospitals since he was nine. Cootie also went on to say how most people think that voodoo had a part in Henrietta's cells. He said that spirits come around to people's homes and give them diseases. He believed that that is what happened to Henrietta because "normal cancer cells don't keep growing after the person is dead".