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Was love holding on or letting go? As foster sons reunite with father, couple open hearts to possible daughter
The baby was sleeping in a cradle, flush against my bed. I could easily reach in and feel her tiny chest, rising and falling with each breath.
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The Wait: Inside one family’s journey from foster care to adoption
Yvonne, a Baltimore Sun reporter, set out to become a foster parent, and she looked for a story that would open up this heartbreaking and complicated world.
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Longing for a child and faced with infertility, couple looks to foster care
Without a hint of alarm, the doctor told me to go ahead and sit up on the exam table. The procedure was finished. I stared at the white and gray image on the X-ray monitor. The physician tried to gently explain what was wrong with me.
‘Will I be here forever?’ With foster brothers, they stitched together a temporary family
In our cozy guest room, I tucked the quilt around the 9-year-old boy I had just met. He looked up at me frightened, his blue eyes wide, a spattering of freckles across his nose.
Yvonne Wenger and her husband, Artie Nordstrom, faced infertility, and after years of trying to have their own baby, they became foster parents.
Where do kids go from foster care?
3,841 kids were in foster care in Maryland in the 2016 federal fiscal year. Where did they end up?
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