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Her Own Independence Day

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It was American Independence Day, July 4, 1976. And on that night, Tina Turner found her own. After another brutal beating, she waited until her husband and jailer, Ike, fell asleep. In a blood-splattered white suit, with 36 cents in her pocket, she ran out onto a freeway. "I wasn't afraid," she would say. "I was already dead." That escape became her second birth. She lost everything—her name, her money, her songs. But she gained her freedom. She started from scratch, performing in Vegas cabarets and scrubbing floors to feed her sons. And then, in the '80s, she came back. Not as a victim, but as a queen. She became one of the biggest stars on the planet, proving that sometimes, to be truly born, you first have to die.
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