The eleventh story in my new book, Traveling Through History: A Collection of Historical Short Stories, is about a fourteen-year-old foster child who is a veteran at changing homes and foster families.

In “Secrets of a Foster Child,” Lorraine finally found a family she felt a part of in 1948, just three years after World War II ended.

Things did not go as hoped, but she just might find dignity in a simple suitcase.

In 2001, the congregation of the church I am a member of contacted the county’s Department of Social Services in search of a hands-on project. When we were told that many foster children have nothing but a garbage bag to carry their belongings in to a foster home, we knew we had found a project we could get excited about.

We collected enough new and like-new suitcases to make sure every foster child in the county had a suitcase. We hoped that would help them no longer think of themselves as “throwaway children.”

As you can see, if you have been reading my book or reading this series of blog posts about the stories in my book, I get my inspiration from many sources.

In case you have missed any of the previous blog posts about the stories in the book, here are the links:

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Janet

The government should be afraid of its citizens, not the other way around.