![]() With foster parents more interested in the income received by housing a foster child, I was once again neglected emotionally. Surely I would fare better at a stable home than living with my highly unstable and unreliable mother? It turns out that foster care was not the storybook ending she I’d hoped for. After being abandoned by my mother for weeks at my grandmother’s apartment in a retirement community, I asked to be put into foster care. ![]() Forgotten birthdays, drug-fueled parties and empty pantries were the norm in whatever household we ended up residing in.įinally at the age of 13, I’d had enough. ![]() Garbage Bag Suitcase is the true story of my wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug and alcohol addicted parents, filled with constant moves in the middle of the night, multiple schools, lack of food, and loneliness. ![]()
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