#314 Jen Lilley - The Dark Truth About the American Foster Care System

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Biddeford's a small city. It's maybe, you know, a little over 20,000 people, and it's got deep immigrant roots in part because it was a mill town, and so it drew a lot of French Canadians.

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I needed to stop this rotisserie of shame.

Harold Cox

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Freedom is really when you let go of blunders.

Harold Cox

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This is my last chance becoming a TV star.

Di Cai

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I did not become the Oprah of China. But I did get people to call me doctor d for the rest of my life.

Di Cai

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To this day, I wonder how I can come from people so strong and feel so small.

Mercedes Hesselroth

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Above all of those photos, he had titled this gallery, The Glorious Past.

Akwi Nji

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As I looked through all of these photos and photo albums and read the letters that he had left behind, there was evidence all around me that he had loved me.

Akwi Nji

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Those boots were precisely the thing that I was supposed to send to take dad to Tougee.

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