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Perhaps for last time, Mrs. Arthur Timbrell reads bedtime story to the little sisters she wants to adoptéPeggy (left) and Valerie. Children's Aid Soci(...)

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Perhaps for last time, Mrs. Arthur Timbrell reads bedtime story to the little sisters she wants to adoptéPeggy (left) and Valerie. Children's Aid Soci(...)

Date9/27/1967

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Griffin, Doug (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Perhaps for last time; Mrs. Arthur Timbrell reads bedtime story to the little sisters she wants to adoptéPeggy (left) and Valerie. Children's Aid Society says they must be returned today; Mrs. Timbrell refuses to give them up.

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