What happens to children nobody wants? Sometime they end up with an elderly blind woman
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former college teacher Norma Claypool has adopted 15 severely handicapped children over the years. Many of them could not speak, and she obtained plastic surgery for several who were facially deformed. She had to give more than half of her children away, when they proved too hard for her to handle.
Publication Name: Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0024-3019
Year: 1997
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Oprah Winfrey: a life in books
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Talk show host Winfrey has always been an avid reader and has been greatly influenced by books. Books got her through a loveless childhood in which she was demeaned for her intelligence and love of reading. Favorite books include 'The Color Purple,' by Alice Walker and 'Jubilee' by Margaret Walker.
Publication Name: Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0024-3019
Year: 1997
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Part 1: woman behind bars
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The lives of women inmates from 37 prisons in nine countries are reflected in photographs. Women prisoners tend to be different in many ways from their male counterparts. They tend to be less violent toward others, but more incline to maim themselves.
Publication Name: Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0024-3019
Year: 1997
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