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“The only time you can be brave is when you’re scared,” Jim said, and then he closed his hand around Chrissy’s tiny fist, pulling the girl’s attention upward. “And you were very brave.”
Most social workers tried to do their best, but there were just too many children and not enough good homes to place them. It was a matter of resources, and these people worked with the bare minimum. The human mind could only take so much abuse before it started to grow apathetic to protect itself.
But people chose to see what they wanted to see, and no amount
of success was going to change true prejudice.
Kerry didn’t know how to save someone from themselves. It was like trying to fight your way out of quicksand. The harder you struggled, the quicker you went down.
