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The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion

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Last year in May, police pulled up to a mansion in Arcadia, California, and found 15 children inside the home, most of them born from different surrogate mothers. How did they get there? Our staff writer Ava Kofman reports on the scandal—and how a group of surrogates banded together to figure out a dark truth.

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