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Article: ONE BATTLE AGAINST FAS FOR YEARS HER FAMILY HAS BEEN RACVAGED BY CHILDREN WITH FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME. BUT INSTEAD OF GIVING UP, MARY ANN LEE IS REACHING OUT.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 27, 1996
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Byline: DEBRA GORDON, STAFF WRITER
LOCKS.
Shiny brass deadbolts decorate every bedroom door in the Lee family's sprawling ranch home in suburban Richmond. They are a symbol of the effect alcohol has had on this family - the alcohol someone they don't know drank more than 15 years ago.
For the Lees' adopted son Curtis, the alcohol that his birth mother drank while pregnant has marked him forever with three devastating letters: FAS.
Curtis, 15, has fetal alcohol syndrome, a condition he acknowledges with a shrug. The locks are necessary because he steals incessantly, his judgment and ability to differentiate between right and wrong ...