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3 unusual facts about Leslie Lemke


Leslie Lemke

In 1983, ABC broadcast The Woman Who Willed a Miracle, a drama about Leslie and his adoptive mother.

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Memorable shows include broadcasts from Belfast (1974), Africa (1975), and May's Miracle (the story of May, Joe and Leslie Lemke).

The Woman Who Willed a Miracle

Produced and directed by Sharron Miller and written by Arthur Heinemann, it tells the extraordinary true story of Leslie Lemke, a blind, mentally retarded boy with cerebral palsy who was raised from infancy by a foster mother who stubbornly refused to let him die.



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