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Girl Assumes Mother's Role in Bronx Household
Nineyearold Margaret Smollen has run a Bronx threeroom flat for five weeks after her mother There sa Smollen 30 vanished October 4 near Fordham Hospital. Margaret supervises chores, cares for six younger siblings aged 10 months to 11 years, and the family dog while father William 48 works at a brick masonry firm. Welfare offered foster care but was refused.
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