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98-Year-Old Woman Recounts Experience As 'Orphan Train' Rider

It seems unimaginable now, but adoption for some families used to be as easy as showing up at the train depot. Word would go out when kids were coming from the East Coast. They were largely children of immigrant families who'd found poverty rather than promise in their voyage to the New World. Renee Wendinger of Sleepy Eye interviewed some Orphan Train riders for her book. Few of them are still living. "They were found in doorways and other out-of-the-way places, hungry and starving," Wendinger said.

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