orphanage
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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
According to Soumah, a woman in the hospital last summer announced to her that Sabina was being sent to an orphanage.
From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026
While Pope Leo spent two decades as a missionary in Peru, Hicks worked at an orphanage in El Salvador from 2005 to 2010, according to a biography released by the New York archdiocese.
From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025
Mining recently resumed, and as new investors come on board, their contracts specify that 1% of their profits go to the orphanage.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
It pained me to have to tell her that he was at the orphanage still and growing up away from the other children, away from everyone, really, and would not talk at all.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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