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Jane Cryan, caring mother took on 150 foster children

By Bryan Marquard

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 25, 2012

Jane Cryan’s five children ranged in age from 4 to 10 when a social worker called to ask if she would open her home to her first foster child, a 15-month-old boy. After caring for him, ““we went from there, one after another,’’ she said in 2007. One after another added up to an estimated 150 children over the course of more than 30 years. “There was never a dull moment - or a quiet one,’’ she recalled.

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