Chapter 6
Episode 6, Chapter 5 The Roller Coaster begins again
Five Days July 1980 — Five Years Old Five days. That's how quickly everything changed. On July 10, 1980, the State of California was ready to let us go. After years of court hearings, foster homes, social workers, lawyers, and strangers deciding where Eric and I would live, a social worker had finally concluded that we were no longer in danger. Mom had "come a long way in straightening out her life." Those were their words.
Five days.
That's how quickly everything changed.
On July 10, 1980, the State of California was ready to let us go. I didn't know that, of course. I was five years old. What I knew was that Mom was smiling more. She had Eric and me and baby Summer all together in a little apartment on the edge of El Cajon, and for a few days, it felt like maybe the world had finally stopped spinning.
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