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Zendaya is the only child of Stoermer and her father, Kazembe Ajamu Coleman.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
The only child of a single mother, Munoz-Pederson, 30, had grown up in a small western Minnesota town.
—Alex Driggars, Austin American Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026
Angie Marchese, vice president of archives and exhibits at Graceland, came up with a few more boxes of unseen footage, a stash of Super 8 movies of Elvis that included rare footage of Elvis with his wife, Priscilla Presley, and only child, Lisa Marie Presley.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2026
Alexander is the only child of Toni Jo Friedmann, a Tennessean, and Victor Friedmann, who grew up in Denver, where his parents, Croatian Jews, landed after fleeing the Nazis.
—James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
The only child of a single mother, Munoz-Pederson, 30, had grown up in a small western Minnesota town.
—Alex Driggars, Austin American Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026
Angie Marchese, vice president of archives and exhibits at Graceland, came up with a few more boxes of unseen footage, a stash of Super 8 movies of Elvis that included rare footage of Elvis with his wife, Priscilla Presley, and only child, Lisa Marie Presley.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2026
Alexander is the only child of Toni Jo Friedmann, a Tennessean, and Victor Friedmann, who grew up in Denver, where his parents, Croatian Jews, landed after fleeing the Nazis.
—James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
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“Only child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/only%20child. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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