Abby Conley
“I was placed into a foster home until I was 18 years old. I would grow to an adult, still broken. I abused drugs, and alcohol. I tried very hard to take my life on two occasions.”
Dusty Donnay
“Twenty foster homes and thirteen institutions. To get out of the orphanages and all I finally promised to join the U.S. Army. So they let me out, and I ran like hell.”
Christine Uwizera Coleman
“With her, I never felt parentless even though I had been orphaned for years… Both parents died of sickness, first my father, then my mother (in 1984 and in 1985). There I was an orphan, at the age of 12!”
Lisa Walker
“Before she got home from work the next day he had already knocked me across my room and told her when she came home that she was going to have to get rid of me right away. I was crying uncontrollably by this time and my stepfather was screaming that I must be on drugs. The police took me back to juvenile where I was sent to a foster home which I also ran away from.”
Terri Hall
“Terri grew up being passed from home to home, guardian to guardian. After several encounters of physical and sexual abuse, by age fifteen Terri felt alone, unloved and rejected.”
Gail Owens
“My Home life was unstable My Parent’s were alcoholics; My Father had four daughters by four different women and never showed much interest in any of us. My Mother would have breakdowns and try to get off of the drink; I had been in foster care several times.”