Cake, balloons, goodbye: What happens when your special needs child ages out of the system
By A Mystery Man Writer
Description
The story of Gilly, an 18-year girl with autism and developmental delay on the cusp of aging out of the system – and the parents who are expected to pick up the slack.
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