The Independent Foster Care Services said it provided a warm home for the girl and said it was not their choice for her to leave.

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Krentcil said that her daughter's burn came from the sun on an unusually warm day and that she would never take the girl into a tanning booth.

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The product of a 1950s love affair between a naive girl and her older, married employer, the author had managed contentedly with warm, inclusive adoptive parents into her thirties.

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