House from ’90s film ‘My Girl’ to become home for expectant mothers, babies

BARTOW, Fla. (WFLA) – In the early 90’s film “My Girl”, Vada Sulftenfuss spends a lot of time running up and down a staircase in her house, which doubles as a funeral home.

The staircase, not to mention the exterior of the home, are immediately recognizable from the movie, which starred Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Later this year, it will be expectant mothers and, later, their babies using that staircase.

This is the My Girl house but soon it will be known as the Hope House,” said Debbie Kelly, resident and program director at Hope House, who will live full-time in a cottage on site.

Hope House is a new 12-month non-profit maternity program for single mothers in need between the ages of 18-26.

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The Bartow property, which will house six mothers at a time, will be the organization’s first.

The women will be referred to Hope House from clinics and screened to make sure they meet requirements.

The plan is to have the mothers move in during their first trimester and stay until their babies are a few months old.

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