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Growing Myself Up: A Journey from Orphanage to Freedom

ByRegina Fox Dodge

“I don’t wish my children to be adopted out to anyone at all.” Regina Fox Dodge’s mother wrote these words to her oldest daughter shortly before Regina was born. Two years later, the 43-year-old mother died, leaving her husband with eight children to raise during the Great Depression. The mother’s plan was carried out shortly after she died. Regina’s 19-year-old brother and 16-year-old sister took the four younger sisters, Marjorie, age 11, Ruth Elaine, age 8, Virginia, age 4, and Regina, age 2, to a Catholic orphanage in Pueblo, Colorado. Regina details life at the orphanage where a tender touch was not allowed but spanking was an art.

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Publication Date
Dec 27, 2014
Language
English
ISBN
9781312770379
Category
Biographies & Memoirs
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Regina Fox Dodge

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Format
EPUB

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