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If it takes a village to raise a healthy child, then what does it take to raise a child with a special need? The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health enlisted Deanne Fitzmaurice, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, to find out. Deanne shadowed 10 families living throughout California – from rural farms to large urban centers to the suburbs surrounding Silicon Valley – who provide care for their children with special needs every day and every night. 

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