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The pilgrimage of the prodigal daughter

Lizzie Philps carries her baby 50 miles to her mother’s house, partly as pilgrimage in atonement for her teenage sins, partly as protest march against the sanctity of motherhood, but mostly because she couldn’t bear to go to Tumble Tots