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This episode contains content which may be unsuitable for some listeners, including descriptions of parents giving up their baby with Down Syndrome to an institution in the early 1950s, . Listener discretion is advised.
In this excerpt from Caroline Patterson’s novel The Stone Sister, the year is 1953 and a young couple is struggling with their decision to institutionalize their baby Lizzie, who has Down Syndrome.