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MORE THAN AN ORDINARY LIFE IBD

EDMUND DOODY
07 / 2019
9780993483349
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Sinopsis

Can you imagine being left as a single parent of nine children?Eddie Doody&rsquo,s mother died when he was just nine years-old. She left a family of nine children aged between two and sixteen years, and abroken-hearted husband.Eddie tells how his dad was determined that the family would stay together, even when social workers tried to persuade him to let the two youngest be adopted. For a man in the early 1950&rsquo,s this was a Herculean task. With the help of his oldest daughter and by working multiple jobs, he succeeded.The family was to suffer the further loss of two of Eddie&rsquo,s brothers and later, Eddie&rsquo,s beloved son, Paul, was taken by cancer.This is the story of an ordinary family who overcame extraordinary adversity.

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