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Moretz

Sarah Moretz admires her dolls lined up in her bedroom closet.

But she knows that while her daughter has reached adulthood, she will always be childlike.
With a dazzling smile and small, brown eyes, Moretz functions at the level of a 6- or 7-year-old. She can read - Dr. Seuss is her favorite. She can write and do some math. But she doesn't understand money, and she trusts everyone.
"My biggest concern is that someone could hurt her," Isambert said. "I worry someone will rape her."
Isambert has always worried about her daughter getting pregnant.
"The day she started menstruating, I had her on birth control," she said. "She had Norplant for a while, but it caused her a lot of trouble. A year ago she was sterilized. She could not possibly take care of a child. She loves her nieces and nephews but when they cry, she doesn't know what to do with them."
Moretz agrees that she couldn't care for a child.
"I don't want any babies at all. It's a big responsibility," she, echoing words she's heard over the years.
But Moretz longs to date and hopes eventually to marry. She dreams of living on her own in a group home. She is on a waiting list for long-term funding that would provide that.
"I hope within two or three years she can be living in a group home," Isambert said. "Then there's the challenge of finding just the right home."

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