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
She was taken to an orphanage and later adopted by British parents, before eventually moving to the UK when she was 10-years-old.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
His mission: take back the mine and repay the Mexican orphanage that once saved him.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 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
Magdalys put her face against the brachy’s big warm neck and thought about the route along the river up to Forty-Second Street, then Fifth Avenue where the orphanage was.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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