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Life On My Own - Developmental Disabilities from Institution to the CommunityPodcast by Maine Developmental Disabilities Counc Author: Maine Developmental Disabilities Council
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Life On My Own - Paul Easton
Wednesday, 25 March, 2020
"It was like going to a strange place. I had to get used to the place. What they did was my mother and father drove over to the building where they did the signing to let the person come to Pineland and then from there I went to a hospital." Paul Easton went from foster home to foster home as a child, ending up in Pineland, Maine’s large institution for people with developmental disabilities. When he finally made it into the community, he could have a life most of us take for granted – a job, a wife, and choices of his own. Find a full transcript of this podcast here: https://maineddc.org/transcript-paul-easton
