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- Diana Defries secured a state apology for forced adoptions.
- She entered Nazareth House in Southampton in 1974 after becoming pregnant at 16.
- Nazareth House, run by Catholic Sisters of Nazareth, housed 1,552 women and girls in its mother-and-baby wing from 1960-1985.
- Unmarked graves of children from Nazareth Houses and similar religious homes have been found in the UK.
- Sister Anna Maria Doolan welcomed the apology.