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    Oct 06, 2021 4 minutes

    Believe in Me by Lucy Neave, UQP

    arah Francis is sent to Idaho from her New York home to accompany missionary Isaiah, going to teach the word of God to native Americans. She is 17 and sad that her mother does not say “I love you” before she goes. On the train the priest rapes her. But she is overjoyed to be pregnant – “She knows something is putting down roots.” Sent to Sydney to a mother and baby home, Sarah goes to extraordinary measures to stop Bethany being adopted. Midwife Dora takes her in when Sarah struggles to cope with a child. Bethany

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