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Q34: Just Like Other Daughters

What is your overall opinion of the story? Is it a positive or negative representation of Down syndrome? Would you recommend it to others?

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Q33: Just Like Other Daughters

**How do you think Alicia’s story will end?**

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Q32: Just Like Other Daughters

**What would you have done if Chloe had been your daughter and become pregnant? How do you think others would have reacted to your choice?**

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Q31: Just Like Other Daughters

**How could Alicia have prevented Chloe and Thomas’s marriage from failing? Margaret?**

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Q30: Just Like Other Daughters

““Will Thomas be giving up his parental rights?” She’s quiet for a moment. “I think it’s best, Alicia, don’t you?”” p. 259 This seems like a complicated legal issue. Assuming Margaret has guardianship over Thomas, does that give her the

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Q29: Just Like Other Daughters

**“We’re all sorry. We wanted our children to be happy so we let them get married.  It was a mistake. We made a mistake.” P. 259 Do you think having Chloe and Thomas move into Alicia’s house after they were

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Q28: Just Like Other Daughters

“I take along my guardianship papers for good measure.” P. 190 The one thing that I notice got almost no attention in this story is the part that guardianship would play if this story were true. Many people believe that

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Q27: Just Like Other Daughters

“I know there are those in the world who would argue that Thomas and Chloe have the same right to reproduce as anyone, but I would wager those people have never come home to a house set on fire by

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Q26: Just Like Other Daughters

**Do you think Alicia should have allowed Chloe to get married? Should Margaret have allowed Thomas to get married? Would there have been a better option?**

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Q25: Just Like Other Daughters

Clothing plays an important part in our lives and in those of the characters we’re reading about. Faulkner describes how Alicia feels about Chloe’s clothes: “But I still think it’s important that I dress her the way I would dress

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