Seven, eight, ten years of life undone in the time it takes to go from breakfast to dinner. A world where there was nothing to hang on to, a world devoid of any reference points. Where had their family gone? Why weren’t their parents looking for them? Why weren’t they coming to get them? Their place had been taken by a woman. A doctor. Who, from the very first minutes of meeting her, used such strange and scary words. Problems. Safety. Protection. Veronica, Lorena’s daughter, put it nicely when she told the judge how Dr. Donati had justified taking her away from her family. “They immediately
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