Genie Wiley: America's Ferie Child

Clark Wiley

Genie’s father had grown up being passed in and out of orphanages and foster homes. He worked as a machinist on aircraft assembly lines during WWII before marrying Irene Oglesby, a woman twenty years his junior. After a severe head injury as a child, Irene suffered from an array of neurological problems and degenerative vision…

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