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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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Previously
…I never found out exactly what triggered the reversal. Maybe Mom relapsed. Maybe someone reported something. Maybe the man with the clipboard was just part of a routine check that found something wrong. I don't know. What I know is that on July 15, 1980, the recommendation that had been made just five days earlier was rescinded. We were back in the system. And I was five years old, sitting on a cot in a room full of strange children, trying to remember what it felt like to be held by my mother. The roller coaster had begun again. And I was learning, even then, that the only thing you could do on a roller coaster was hold on and wait for it to stop.