Image Credit: Emma Margraf I sat in a small and dirty conference room with a young mother and her lawyer for hours before she decided to sign away her…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedFoster Care: Everybody Likes a Comeback (But Not for These Kids)
Jane and I stood on the stage with the Governor at the annual ceremony for graduating foster youth going to college. There were maybe sixty of us in an auditorium…
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My friend Michele’s mother said I could stay with them for four days tops. “That’s it,” she said. Four days. She was moved by my plight, but scared of Mama.…
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It began with a photo album. Simple looking, but full of memories of a time buried in the back of my mind—an old wound picked open as I stared at…