Leyla Sanai

Two men and no baby

Patrick Flanery and his husband felt unable to cope with mental or physical disabilities. ‘But would you take a ginger child?’, asks a social worker

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Leyla Sanai
Dr Leyla Sanai is a Persian-British writer and retired doctor who worked as a physician, intensivist, and consultant anaesthetist before developing severe scleroderma and antiphospholipid syndrome

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