'There was no Hollywood ending for me and my mother' - one woman's story of Sean Ross Abbey and Sister Hildegarde McNulty

“I lived in Niles (near Chicago) when I was younger, then we moved to as suburb called Park Ridge,” recalls Colleen.
“My adoptive parents had a natural daughter, my older sister, and it was just the four of us.”
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While many children fared much better in the US than in 1960s Ireland at the time, Colleen was one of the unlucky ones. For her, the notion of a “better life” on the other side of the pond couldn’t have been farther from the truth. Her adoptive mother – who died in 2003 – had a long history of mental illness, and Colleen says she was often a target of her rage.

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