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This book was published in 1959, so many of the attitudes towards people who were "different" are not common today. Charlie is a man in his 30's with cognitive disabilities which were labeled mental retardation in that era. Modern readers may not realize that at the time he was a child, in the 1930's, many families. perhaps the majority, sent their children to state institutions where they stayed often for their entire lives. As a college student, I worked in the Fernald State School in Massachu ...more
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