The Best Stories You've nEver Read #58

The Girl in the Window -- St. Petersburg Times

This is a hard-to-believe tale of a seven-year-old girl who according to a caseworker had been so profoundly abused and neglected that she had never been to school and never seen a doctor. She didn't know how to hold a doll, didn't understand peek-a-boo. "Due to the severe neglect," a doctor would write, "the child will be disabled for the rest of her life." The girl, known as Dani, is now nine and her recovery has been halting but remarkable thanks to the efforts of  a wonderful adoptive family. 

Click the link above to read this moving piece by Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times.  We're proud to claim Lane as a member of the WeissWrite speakers bureau. Read more about Lane here.

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-- Dick Weiss