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BECAUSE SHE PLAYED WITH FIRE, HER CHILD, WHOM SHE SO LOVED, MUST NEVER KNOW SHE WAS HIS MOTHER...!
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
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