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We got a phone call one night from the agency about a little boy about 6. His mom had been picked up for shoplifting’ She was going to jail. They couldn’t find family for her. So he came in the middle of the night, a little Mexican boy, he spoke English well. We ate a snack and went to bed. The next afternoon I had a knock on my door, I opened it and there was Hectors mom. She wanted her son. When I tried to explain to her the system didn’t work that way she had no idea what I was saying. Hector had to translate to her in Spanish. I called the police and then the worker. All worked out she left and that afternoon the worker came and got him. Boy did the Police station who brought him hear from me. They had given the mom my address not knowing, or caring to find out I was not family.
We had a little Indian boy whose parents had been arrested for sleeping on someone’s lawn. Kenny stayed with us for a while until the workers sent him to the reservation with family. We had another little boy who had been in a shelter for too long, and too many times looking to find the right foster home. He was 6 and very hyperactive. He went to school here in the neighborhood, after moving in with us. We tried very hard to help him, to make him fit in. Fawn, Mandy and Sandi were still young. I think Sandy was just about two at the time. Behavior problems finely sent him onto another family. He was hurting the little girls and upsetting everything. He had a lot of behavior like the first Mandy we had. I noticed it and thank God had learned something from it. We had a little girl named Katy; she was a doll, very loud when she screamed but a doll. She was around the same age as Sandy 18 mons. -2 years. They had a blast together. She came to us because of a bad boyfriend of mom’s. Mom refused to leave him so they took Katy. She stayed with us only a few months. Mom wised up and decided that Katy was more important.
We had a little black girl, named Anastasia who was Fawns age about 5 or 6. She was living in a “FOST.ADOPT” home whose mom needed a break for a week. That poor little girl was a mess, her hair was premed to the point that it was breaking off and her ears had not had earrings in them for too long, they were starting to grow closed. We fixed her hair as best as we could and bought her some new earrings just like Fawns. The two girls just had a blast. With in 2 days I called her worker and explained to her the child’s condition, and the things she had been telling us. The worker then came out and checked her out, concluding that she couldn’t be put back in that home. She asked us if we would consider adopting her. She needed a permeate, loving home. We thought hard about it, but decided that we just couldn’t do it. She stayed with us just long enough for them to find her another placement.