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A friend suggested I read this book about a girl with Down's Syndrome. I didn't think I'd like it but I did. It's about a lot more than that. A doctor delivers his wife's male and female twins. When he realizes immediately that the girl twin has Down's, he sends her to an institution and lies to the wife that the infant died at birth. That lie basically destroys his life. It is a touching drama, a story "of parallel lives, familial secrets and the redemptive power of love." Kim Edwards is an awa
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Sep 12, 2008
Marie
marked it as to-read
May 05, 2009
Eleanor
marked it as to-read
