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Breaking: Atlanta Woman Claims 13-Year Affair with Cain

An Atlanta-area woman will soon announce she had a 13-year affair with Herman Cain, according to local media reports and Herman Cain himself.

An Atlanta businesswoman will soon announced that she had an affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain that lasted 13 years, according to a WAGA FOX-5 Atlanta breaking news story and national news reports.

"I was aware that he was married, and I was also aware that I was involved in a very inappropriate situation relationship," the woman, identified by the station as Ginger White, told FOX-5.

"This individual is going to accuse me of an affair for an extended period of time," Cain said on CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blizter this afternoon.

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Cain, who was profiled by Cascade Patch correspondent Yolande Minor in October in "The Herman Cain of Atlanta's West Side," grew up in segregated Atlanta and attended segregated schools, English Avenue Elementary, in the Vine City-English Avenue area, andthe former Archer High School (now part of ) in an industrial, blue collar community on Perry Boulevard. At the age of 10, he joined Antioch Baptist Church, the southwest Atlanta church lead by the influential Rev. Cameron Alexander.

Cain's father, Luther, worked as a janitor, a barber, and a chauffeur for Robert Woodruff, the president for Coca-Cola. His mother, Lenora, was a domestic worker. One of Luther Cain's high points in life was saving enough money from his three jobs to purchase a modest brick home on Albert Street off Oldknow in the Collier Heights neighborhood.

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Cain graduated salutatorian from Archer in 1963 and was chose as both "Best All Around" and "Most Likely to Succeed" by his peers. Cain went on to graduate from Morehouse College in 1967 and a year later married Atlanta resident Gloria Etchison after she graduated from .

News broke earlier this fall that two women had come forward to complain of sexual misconduct by Cain during his tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. Two more, including Sharon Bialek, who was the first to speak publically, have come forth since.

Cain has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.


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