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Restoring adoption. (Society).
AN EMPTY CRADLE sits in the middle of the cobbled courtyard of a grand old building on Madison Avenue in New York City. Girls "who had done the unthinkable, unmarried girls who had done what must never be done and given birth" leave their babies in the cradle, ringing the bell nearby, as they disappear into the anonymity of the city.
This scene is described by American writer Anne Roiphe in her poignant book A Mother's Eye. As a young girl, Roiphe would peer through the bus window at this small cradle surrounded by ornate stone walls and the gnarled faces of gargoyles. Her mother told her "the nuns inside the building would wait a discreet amount of time, letting ...
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