![]() ![]() These stories show the heartbreaking reality and stigma on unmarried mothers and those that lived in poverty. She talked of these children as if they were an object. Over 5,000 children went through this agency and it is estimated that 500 children died. Some stories were heartwarming and beautiful and others shattered my soul. I wish I could quote this whole book! Like Before We Were Yours, it took me some time to get through because of the emotional carnage. Tell a story that would have otherwise been lost. Maybe after reading these stories, someone out there will choose to become that one person for one person. Judy Christie is a journalist who interviews all those who reach out leading up to a reunion of the survivors. Wingate then contacted Judy Christie to help her write down all of these stories. After the release of Before We Were Yours, survivors and adoptees reached out to Lisa Wingate. This agency was discussed in Lisa Wingate’s historical fiction Before We Were Yours. The history we deny is the history we are most likely to repeat.” Before and Afterīefore and After by Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate is a nonfiction account of the survivors of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society run by Georgia Tann. “The realities of what happened at TCHS are hard to contemplate, but they are necessary to revisit. ![]()
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