Aunty Eva-Jo Edwards shares her painful and disconnected experience of being taken into institutions growing up
"I can't remember my life before the institutions. I was never told that I was loved, wanted or needed. I wasn't hugged or kissed or even remember being encouraged to think what it is I might achieve out of life. Overall, I was institutionalised for 13 years."
Boon Wurrung/Bunurong, Yorta Yorta, Mutti Mutti woman Aunty Eva-Jo Edwards shares her painful and disconnected experience of being taken into institutions growing up.
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