![]() ![]() ![]() One told them that in China, a child like Karen would be left on a mountaintop to die. They saw more than 20, all of whom said that Karen’s case was hopeless. Far from forgetting about Karen, they scoured the United States and Canada for medical specialists who could help her. That was the last thing that James and Marie Killilea (pronounced KILL-ill-ee) would do. The doctors told Karen’s parents to institutionalize her and get on with their lives. Babies born so early rarely survived in those days. When she finally returned to the family home in Rye, N.Y., her parents noticed that her limbs were especially stiff, she never rolled over in her crib, and she didn’t reach for toys that were dangled in front of her. She spent her first nine months in a neonatal intensive care unit. ![]() When Karen Killilea was born in 1940, she was three months premature and weighed less than two pounds. ![]()
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