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I had a somewhat different experience...I was orphaned but not adopted; I was raised by an aunt. My half-sister had two children. Her husband left her. When she would screw around with her new boyfriend, she would strap her two kids in their cribs with harnesses she got from an idiot doctor so she could leave them in the apartment alone. The authorities found out and the kids were subsequently taken by the state. In Massachusetts at the time, other family members couldn't visit until the parents did. She didn't, so we couldn't. The kids were adopted away from us and we have no idea where they are. This was around 1980. My family has nothing to do with my sister anymore. I wish they would try to find us.