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Chelsea who can still remember the night she was removed from her birth home. She had only minutes to gather what she could and toss it into a black plastic bag before leaving with someone she had never met and arriving at the foster home. Scared and confused, she wondered what would happen to her next.

Mike a loving boy who entered foster care as a victim of child abuse and neglect at the age of four. One year later, he was available for adoption. Now 13, Mike has lived in seven different homes and has just about given up on find a loving, permanent family of his own.

Sarah is a bright young girl who turned 18 one month before graduating from high school. Then, after graduation, she was kicked out of her foster home and taken to a homeless shelter. She was 18, a high school graduate, and homeless.

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