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Personal Narrative: I Am A Foster Home

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Unlike most I am a daughter to many individuals, fifteen homes consisting of fifteen moms, and fifteen dads. I am a foster child, in a foster home by choice. I exaggerate “by choice”, because I’m not actually a foster child, I am not actually in the foster care system. My name sits in the category “homeless”. I have walked in and out of six homes, accepted not accepted, loved not loved, and sometimes bed, or no bed. At times I went home saying, “I can't” only to wake up saying, “I can." Living in a world so bonded with sin has been challenging. The worldly influences have challenged my Godly influences at times. One of my biggest life lessons growing up and still to this day is that God is always faithful. Growing up I had what I felt like
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