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Compare And Contrast Quincy And Biddy

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Quincy and Biddy, two 18 year old Special Education students who have just graduated from High School, and are relocated to an elderly woman’s house who they call Miss Lizzie and Lizbeth. While they live there they both have jobs, Biddy is Miss Lizzie 's house keeper and Quincy is an employee at a grocery store down the street.

Biddy’s mental disabilities came from not having enough oxygen in the womb, she was abandoned by her mother to be raised by her cruel grandmother who didn 't think well of Biddy. When Quincy was 6 years old she received a head trauma wound from her mother 's abusive boyfriend, and since then she bounced around the foster care system ever since then.
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