In 1987 Harlem, 16-year-old Claireece Jones, who goes by her middle name, Precious, is illiterate, overweight, and pregnant--for the second time, by the same man: her biological father ...

"There was no better father than Andrew,” the grieving mother said. “He was the best of the best. He took care of all of us.” As for their children, "my babies were precious," she told the ...