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While watching this documentary on feral children I was shocked that this was an actual concept. I have never heard anything about this before until now. I was very interested in the documentary and the different concepts it covered. Personally, my main thought about the topic was that this can’t be an actual thing. Once I got farther into the topic my thoughts turned as they show you the different cases. You saw the way the children acted in each case and how each case was different yet similar depending on the age of the child when found. In each case I wondered about these children’s parents. Why would they let this happen to their child? Each child had to start out as your normal baby, but somehow, they each turned feral whether it be

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