From Miracle To Misery: The Stolen Childhood of the Dionne Quintuplets

2025-10-03

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In depression-era Canada, a rural farmhouse in Northern Ontario became the unlikely stage for a global sensation.Five tiny lives entered the world and, against all odds, became the first known surviving identical quintuplets. But behind the starstruck gazes and celebratory headlines, a different story was unfolding; one of unprecedented intervention, lives under constant scrutiny, and of innocence lost.We're going to go deep into this complex and unsettling story in an episode I'm calling From Miracle to Misery: The Stolen Childhood...

In depression-era Canada, a rural farmhouse in Northern Ontario became the unlikely stage for a global sensation.

Five tiny lives entered the world and, against all odds, became the first known surviving identical quintuplets. But behind the starstruck gazes and celebratory headlines, a different story was unfolding; one of unprecedented intervention, lives under constant scrutiny, and of innocence lost.

We're going to go deep into this complex and unsettling story in an episode I'm calling From Miracle to Misery: The Stolen Childhood of the Dionne Quintuplets.

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