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The Children Nobody Wanted

TMDb5.6IMDbView on IMDb ↗1981-12-05· 100 min
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True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the youngest single adult to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri.

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