You sit up straight in the hard plastic chairs in the cold conference room waiting to meet your potential new foster daughter, absently rubbing your knuckles raw with your thumb.…
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Image Credit: Irina Iriser For J I. when we leave you for the last time right away, we forget the look on your face, for fear of burning…
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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…