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This Is Mine: My Story, My Life
This Is Mine: My Story, My Life
This Is Mine: My Story, My Life
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“This Is Mine: My Story, My Life” by Malinda Phillips
Contributions by Helen Ramaglia, Jesse DeLuna, Leroy Berrones-Soto, Jr., Rev. Marie Smith, “Marija Sophia”, “Missy Jay”, “Nikki J”, Phyllis Amalfitano Kessler Guilmette Thompson, “Sheniqua”, ShirleyAlexis JohnsonBrady, and Tenisha Edwards.

This Is Mine: My Story, My Life shares life stories of those who have experienced foster care. Each contributor has their own unique way of telling their story. Philly shares through imagery, using Pandora's Box as a metaphor for her complicated relationship with her biological family. ShirleyAlexis pours out her story, the painful horrifying truth of it, in a torrent of words that capture you and hold you breathless... Leroy talks about himself in the third person...as if looking down on his life from another place. Helen finds her voice again, after years of silent trauma, living in fear of the “Unknown” Monster.

The chapters "in between" their stories are places where they share what family means to them, give advice to foster parents, and share their childhood dreams (if they had any). They ask questions of the judicial system, talk about aging out and adoption, pay tribute to their heroes, and talk about what they attribute their resiliency from.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 26, 2014
ISBN9781311247506
This Is Mine: My Story, My Life
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Malinda Phillips

Malinda Phillips is a writer, mother, and child welfare caseworker.. She resides with her family and her furry four legged troublemakers in Ohio. She has a degree in Social Welfare from The University of Washington. Malinda is an ordinary person seeking to do extraordinary things through her writing and advocacy for victims of child abuse and neglect. She is the founder of The 90/Ten Project, the90tenproject.com. You can also find her on Twitter at @socialwkrdiva.

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