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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

by Ann Fessler

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Jun 30, 2026 01:54PM

Sorrow and love are a single coin—the one we pay as the price of our humanity. Take it away and we’d be the worst kind of poor. And it’s a mistake to believe the value of a life is erased by anguish at the end. If there’s one thing atheists ...more

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“We are a continuum of human experience, neither the worst nor the best thing we have ever done. Or, more exactly, we are both the best thing and the worst thing we’ve ever done. We are all of it, all at once, all the time.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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