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Interdepartmental Report on the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (17 Jul 2014): Anne Ferris: ...of our shared mother? I know, from the documented experiences of many women of her era, that women who bore more than one baby in a mother and baby home frequently were obliged to serve time in a Magdalen laundry. Perhaps our mother managed to avoid such a sentence by not choosing the same home twice for her confinement. The evidence, however, is that most women in her circumstances...

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