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Before and after, the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate

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Before and after

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Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate

Thorndike Press large print nonfiction

the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann's lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and journalist Judy Christie, who documented the stories of fifteen adoptees in this book, many determined Tann survivors set out to trace their roots and find their birth families. Here many victims return to Memphis with the authors to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children's Home Society reunion ... with extraordinary results

Truth meets fiction. Real-life adoptees ; In their own voices -- RSVP. A cadillac and a secret ; Clues from a high school science class ; It's all in the DNA ; One day old and sent to Memphis -- Reunion. Born on Christmas day ; A political baby ; A Hollywood life ; Left to die ; Reunion eve ; The only home she knows ; Handed off in a train station ; A pair of brown paper bags ; Seven-dollar baby ; The court case ; The night all the babies died ; Four sisters -- The reckoning. A historic cemetery and final peace ; Afterward