![]() ![]() ![]() There’s often nothing else available to stuff clothes and belongings in when children are moved from home to home while in foster care. The Garbage Bag Suitcase in the title is a reference to the number of times kids in care often move houses. Truly heartbreaking and poignant, The Garbage Bag Suitcase is a story of a young woman’s success despite aging out of a child welfare system that is badly broken. It’s a sad, brave and very real story that is not at all uncommon, but is rarely told. After years of this abuse and neglect, the young girl bravely makes the choice to commit herself to foster care at age of 13. Shenandoah is treated abusively by her stepfather, and neglected by her beautiful but drug addled mother and moves homes in the middle of the night many times over with a mother that is not fit to parent. ![]() The Garbage Bag Suitcase is a truly powerful memoir of a young girl who was chronically neglected by her substance abusing parents. ![]()
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