orphanage
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But instead, she learned that their mother had entrusted them to an orphanage while the family dealt with financial difficulties.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Instead of being cared for in the orphanage, the two children were adopted together in Denmark, like tens of thousands of others sent overseas in a state-sanctioned practice that lasted decades.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
In Anaheim, St. Catherine’s Academy combines Catholic boys’ K-8 education and military traditions, having its beginnings in a girls school, later an orphanage, and, in 1924, a military school.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Eleven-year-old Margot “Meg” Lefleur, one of the two narrators of Kathryn Stockett’s historical novel “The Calamity Club,” has been a resident of an orphanage in Oxford, Miss., since 1931—two miserable years.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Grandma and Grandpa Miller brought her home from an orphanage when she was only a few months old.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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