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After her mother’s death, the author discovers that her family wasn’t as prestigious as she thought, and instead her mother had been raised as a « foundling » in an orphanage type setting, founded by British elite to help children being abandoned in the 1700’s. Interestingly, at first churches didn’t recognize adoption since families acquiring an heir might mean a loss of financial support to the church.