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After all, he only said "macaca" once.

“Loping across the field came this young man,” she said. “And as I recall, he was politicking then and he shook my aunt's hand and I hadn't told her anything about this because she was so upsettable and such a sweet old lady that I wouldn't even want her to hear this ugly story…When he got to me, he didn't recognize me. And I did not shake his hand. I just said looked him in the eye and said, ‘You do not remember me, do you?’ And then he remembered me. And then I could see the light go on in his eyes. And at that point, he turned and scurried off like scared rabbit I guess.” [P6: Which means he was a hypocrite even then.]

The aunt who allegedly witnessed the run-in at the fair passed away. But another Waring relative, Beverly Brewster, who graduated from UVA’s law school one year behind Allen, told us Waring talked about the alleged Allen incident at the time. Another relative whom we spoke to says Waring told the story "through the years." Several people say she talked about it this summer.

Woman says Allen used racial slur repeatedly
George Allen's campaign manager denies the latest accusations
By David Shuster
MSNBC correspondent

Just six weeks before the congressional elections, Virginia's incumbent senator, George Allen, is now facing more charges that he used racial slurs.

Pat Waring, 75, of Chesterton, Md., first brought her story to MSNBC when she contacted us in a direct phone call. We then conducted a series of interviews. Waring says that at a sports match in the late 1970's, Allen repeatedly use the ‘n’ word to describe blacks.

"I just didn't think in the late 70's people would be so ugly and so overt about it and so public," Waring said.