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Old 14-08-13, 21:55
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Originally Posted by Olde Crone View Post
Everyone seemed to think it was a wonderful thing that the Maybury boy had been parcelled off to Canada. Wonder how HE felt about that, as he appears to have had a happy foster placement with the Patients.
Yes, I couldn't help feeling that if the programme-makers and Lesley weren't trying to show Barnardo's in such a positive light, they could easily have followed the line of how awful it was to send young children away so far away from everyone and everything that they knew.

I saw something in the records that Lesley was shown about the foster mother (presumably Jane Patient) being ill with a kidney stone? Maybe she and Charles were unable to look after the boys any more for health / age reasons?
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