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Little house in the courtyard

A memorial to Maddie

by Steve Gilzow

posted 11/22/2008

Against a backdrop of skyscraping cranes, a towering framework of I-beams, and the pounding of pneumatic tools, a lone forklift recently chugged into the courtyard behind C. S. Mott’s Children’s Hospital and, in a matter of minutes, quietly eased an entire house—a ninety-square-foot playhouse—onto its concrete slab. Maddie’s Storybook Cottage is named after

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