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Broken Dolls

by Jennifer Warner

171 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-2367; ISBN 1-4251-0609-9; US$21.00, C$24.15, EUR17.25, £12.08

This is a true story about a tiny child named Cricket who lived in a State Hospital and a woman who loved her...

About the Book

I wrote this Memoir when I was twenty-five. No-one had warned me I could fall in love with a little child. Cricket shook me to the soles of my feet the first time I met her on the State Hospital grounds. A little girl who never learned to walk or talk or throw a kiss became my finest teacher. It was an odyssey into inner space. I wish I could gently hold your heart as she held mine as I met all the precious ones in the State Hospital for the Mentally Retarded. She enfolded me in bravery and courage for I loved her so.

Take my hand and come with me...there are some children I want you to meet.

About the Author

Jennifer Warner is from S. Calif. and has a Bachelors' Degree from the University of Washington. She grew up all over the United States and Paris France. She started a non-profit called Marisol Inc. which provided a home for medically Fragile Children for twenty years. There are no-longer infants and children under the age of sixteen in the State Hospital she writes about. The Marisol concept of normalization has been quoted by Vanderbilt University as helping to motivate and create homes in the community for the medically fragile child. She also helped start up an adoption agency called Kinship Center South. Jennifer now lives in a Victorian house with her partner Valerie and beautiful adopted daughters Raven and Maya. She is a photographer and a visionary...

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