Irish slang for party or celebration; by extension, some substance with which you party or celebrate. I'm AWOH (Absent With Out Hooley) so I gotta boost tha Uncle's stash.
Henrietta Lacks was an African American tobacco farmer and mother of five. She died in 1951, but her cells were kept and studied by scientists without the knowledge of her family. The cells have been genetically sequenced once again without consent.
The Lacks family were not, and are not, wealthy. Henrietta's husband Day (with whom she'd had her first baby aged 14) worked in a steel mill in Baltimore, making about 80 cents an hour. Life in their household was tough enough, with five children to feed, even before their mother got cancer.