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The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon is a poignant historical fiction novel about love, resilience, and disability rights, set in the 1960s, focusing on Lynnie, a woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, a deaf African American man, who escape a brutal institution with their newborn daughter, only to be separated, leading to a decades-long secret pact with a kind widow, Martha, to protect the child, Julia, while highlighting the harsh realities of institutionalization.
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