Kyle McGinley vows to remain silent in an effort to regain control. Jan Andrew tells the story of a foster child who was tired of being shuttled from one foster home to the next until he ended up at the home of Scott and Jill Wardman. Slowly, he begins to adjust to his new foster parents; they accept him even with his unwillingness to speak. But Kyle's life is far from silent. Inside his head, besides the inevitable voice of his father—a voice of derision, abuse, and insult—a new voice is born: the voice of someone who is actually on Kyle's side. He begins to hold onto the sense of hope that maybe, just maybe, things may get better with care, building relationships, and developing his own creativity.
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This incident first came to light while he was still in foster care with Wendy, a social worker. On their way to the new foster car, he heard a voice that he recognised as not Wendy's. The voice dressed and sounded like a doctor and a scientist, and he claimed that he was on a mission to get the "life-sucking orge" out of his head for as long as it needed. After a while, he grew attached to this unusual companion, whom he eventually nicknamed Ingen. On the day they arrived at Kyle's new foster home, the home of Scott and Jill Warden, he wonders why they agree to take him in and questions their motives in his mind but does not dare to voice his reservations. But what was different among all the other foster parents that Kyle had was that they were consistent in their care of Kyle. Scott and Jill let Kyle know that his anger has the right to be expressed because they, too, have personal experience with family issues. Kyle built a bond with each parent in many different ways, either with Scott's tractor lesson or the similar situation that Jill and Kyle had with their dads. As he gets used to this relationship, he begins to recognise caring and build