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#2 "Look, I'm Still Here." A Story of Abandonment, Loss, Grief, and Resilience
This is about a child who survived the people and systems that were supposed to protect him and the man he became despite it all. Look, I'm Still Here is the true story of a little boy who entered California’s child’s welfare system before…
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…Then I finally had Mom and Eric back. I had Tom. I had baby Summer. We were together. So when I heard Tom threatening to leave, maybe some part of me thought, No. We're not doing this again. I couldn't control whether the adults stayed. I couldn't stop them from fighting. But in my five-year-old mind, there was one thing I could control. If somebody was going to leave this family, it was going to be me first. So I packed the two things that mattered most to me and headed for the bus stop. Thankfully, Mom came after me. And maybe that's the part of this memory I like the most. That time, when I left, somebody came looking for me.