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The Orphaned Songbird
- Narrated by: Lynda Remmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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Ada Walker doesn’t remember her parents, so she never knew how much she was loved. Her father has been missing for a year, so when her mother dies when Ada is just four years old, she faces an uncertain future with an unscrupulous foster mother.
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