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• Richard Burton and Adoption
  ...er, Philip Burton, who, although too close in age to the boy by a few days to [[adopt]] him, became his [[Legal Guardian|legal guardian]] and gave him hi ...tury, but his life was saddened by several failed marriages (including two to Elizabeth Taylor) and drink problems. His films included My Cousin Rachel,
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• Robert C. Byrd and Adoption
  ...]. He graduated from high school first in his class but was too poor to go to university full time. ...ayed in the Senate after 40 years until he passed away in June of 2010 due to health issues..
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• John Callahan and Adoption
  ...then had five birth children. He felt an outsider in his family and began to abuse alcohol. ...yndicated cartoonist, famous for his wicked sense of humor and willingness to tackle taboo subjects and sacred cows.
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• Morris Cerullo and Adoption
  ...him to Heaven, where he met God face to face and was told he would be able to foretell the future. ...de him controversial, he has a world-wide following and regularly preaches to congregations of tens of thousands. He heads two organizations: Morris Ceru
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• Eric Clapton and Adoption
  ...nmarried girl of 16 and a Canadian soldier, and raised by her parents. His mother left home, returning in 1957, but for some years the fiction was maintained He got his first guitar when he was 14 and went on to become one of the world's greatest rock musicians, in the Yardbirds, Cream
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• Brian Connolly and Adoption
  ...s named Mark, and there was also a cousin named Mark McManus - who grew up to become the actor who played Taggart in the British television detective ser [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]
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• Catherine Anne Cookson and Adoption
  ...asting shock, leading a nervous breakdown in her thirties. But she went on to become one of the most successful novelists of all time. Goodwin, Cliff. To Be a Lady: The Story of Catherine Cookson. (London: Arrow, 1995)
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• Bernard Cornwell and Adoption
  ...on afterwards he was adopted by the Wiggins couple from Essex who belonged to the fundamentalist separatist sect, The Peculiar People. They adopted five ...to the USA where he had to become a writer, something he had always wanted to do anyway, because he was refused working permit. His first book won him a
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• Eric Robertson Cullen and Adoption
  ...fism. (He was adopted at birth because his mother was unmarried and unable to care for him; his achondroplasia was not diagnosed until he was seven.) ...hen work dried up in his teens, instead of becoming depressed he went back to school and college, graduating from Glasgow College in social sciences. Soo
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• Edward Dahlberg and Adoption
  ...rn by her husband for being unfaithful. He and his older brother were sent to a Jewish orphanage, but he absconded. His experiences there influenced his [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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• Joseph John Deacon and Adoption
  ...d to Queen Mary's Hospital, Carsharlton, then transferred six months later to St. Lawrence's Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his life. During ...e age of 10, also with severe cerebral palsy, and was the only person able to understand Deacon, because of his severe speech impairment. The third membe
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• James Byron Dean and Adoption
  ...randparents, where he stayed until 1949. He then returned to live with his father in Los Angeles and started university. In the early 1950s he began to get acting jobs and soon became one of the best-known actors in the country
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• Anthony Douglas and Adoption
  Douglas was born to an 18-year-old unmarried girl in the northeast of England and placed for adoption in London as a bab ...of the Association of Directors of Social Services. In April 2002 he moved to become the director of social care for Suffolk County Council. He is also (
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• Peter Oelrichs Duchin and Adoption
  ...beneath her. His mother died only six days after he was born, and his busy father gave him into the custody of her friends, the extremely wealthy and powerfu ...47 he went back to live with his remarried father and step-mother, but his father died in 1951. He grew up surrounded by the rich, famous and powerful, and m
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• David Glasgow Farragut and Adoption
  ...ing the War of 1812, a family friend to whom his father sent him after his mother died. [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]
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• Olive Fremstad and Adoption
  ...]] there by an American family of Swedish heritage and emigrated with them to the USA when she was 10. ...he family moved to Minneapolis. She was excellent at the piano, but turned to singing in her teens. She studied in [[New York]] and Berlin, and made her
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• William Lloyd Garrison and Adoption
  ...to a carpenter, and tried several other trades. Finally he was indentured to a newspaper owner when he was 14 and quickly learned the printing trade and ...decades fighting slavery, dedicating his journalism and publishing skills to the cause. He founded the Liberator, a famous abolitionist paper, in 1831 a
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• Madge Gill and Adoption
  ...spent 10 years in an [[orphanage]]. She married in 1907 but did not begin to paint until one of her sons died of influenza. ...cognized as a major figure in Brut painting ([[ART|art]] without precedent or tradition; [[ART|art]] by "outsiders").
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• Kenneth Grahame and Adoption
  ...lings to live with relatives. There was a trial year when he tried again to raise them himself, but it failed and the children never heard from him aga ...gh an important financial figure and head of the Bank of England from 1898 to 1908, he is most famous as the author of The Wind in the Willows, first pub
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• Larry Grayson and Adoption
  ...other died when he was six and he was then raised by his two sisters (born-to daughters of the Hammonds). ...st touch with his working-class roots or his home town, where he continued to live until his death from a burst appendix.
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