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Amazing Story

  • 30-03-2012 9:09pm
    #1
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭


    Just found this article from 2008 and I found it to be a extraordinary story about a severely neglected girl who found a home and a life. It's a bit long but well worth the read! :)

    Could possibly distress some people however:

    http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article750838.ece/


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  • #2
    BluesBerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭BluesBerry


    I remember reading this years ago but what always struck me as odd was how were they allowed to adopt her if they didnt even have room for her their son William had to give up his bedroom and sleep in the laundry room
    William was used to living like an only child, but since Dani has moved in, she gets most of their parents' attention. "She needs them more than me," he says simply.
    He gave her his old toys, his "kid movies," his board books. He even moved out of his bedroom so she could sleep upstairs. His parents painted his old walls pink and filled the closet with cotton-candy dresses.
    They moved a daybed into the laundry room for William, squeezed it between the washing machine and Dani's rocking horse. Each night, the 10-year-old boy cuddles up with a walkie-talkie because "it's scary down here, all alone."

    :(


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