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Autobiography/Memoir
Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal
Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate
2021
From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a corrupt adoption scheme at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis, selling over 5,000 children to adoptive parents. Many of these children were not orphans but had been stolen from poor families, single mothers, or were falsely told their babies had died. Before and After recounts the emotional and shocking stories of survivors trying to reconnect with their birth families.
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