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Before and after the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

Before and after the incredible real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

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From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann's lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and journalist Judy Christie, who d...