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Daily Mirror
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Lydia Veljanovski

Woman left at children's home thought it was because she was deaf learns real reason

At just two weeks old, Joselyn Taylor was abandoned at a children’s home, left to grow up asking herself why and deciding it must be because she was deaf.

But now, at the age of 68, she has traced her brother James, 73, and discovered the real reason her mother had to give up her baby daughter.

James says: “She couldn’t cope with both of us. She was unmarried, she had two or three jobs sometimes to keep food on the table.”

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