orphanage
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When Korkejian’s mother was 7, her own mother placed her in an orphanage on the Lebanese coast to protect her from her father.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 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
Since her deportation in August, Soumah said she has been allowed two short video calls to see Sabina, who is being kept in a Minsk orphanage.
From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026
Mabinty Suma and I were thrilled to see that it had a real bed, just like the one that Papa Andrew had used at the orphanage.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
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