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A Look Back at Lives Touched by a Troubled Youth Center

Jennifer Stayton of KUT News talked with author Sherry Matthews about her new book on the Waco State Home, a troubled youth facility that operated until the 1970s. Matthews says that for some alumni of the youth facility, life there remains too painful a memory to recount.

By Jennifer StaytonApril 1, 2011, 5:00 a.m. CentralUpdated April 1, 2011, 5:00 a.m. Central

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A Look Back at Lives Touched by a Troubled Youth Center

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