The pain that I hold inside
My name is tiara I live in Milwaukee Wisconsin I am 21 years old and I was in foster care I remember getting took from my mom at the age of eight it was the last day of school the end of the year I'm getting off the bus so happy and excited because I know my summer was going to start then I see some social workers in front of my mom door and they told me that I have to come with them and I'm looking at my mom like what is going on I guess my sister end up getting a whooping for my mom a couple days ago she went to school and told her teacher that my mama be abused her so they call the social worker and they end up coming out and taking all my brothers and sisters out the house the social workers Place me in the stranger house that I never seen before her name is Raven Henderson she treated me like I was her own daughter she was being so sweet and nice to me I was staying with her for about 2 years but you know how that go some people change on others I guess the money was not coming fast enough for her she used to tell me that she bought all the outfits for me and they didn't do nothing for me then I found out she was getting a check for me when I decided to move with my sister with her foster mother to be closer to my sister start treating me start being mean to me you took a lot of my clothes away from me she packed up what she wanted to give to me when I move in to my sister Foster mother house I'm moving with my sister Alicia and I found out her foster mother Donna birth was very racist so I feel like I got tricked to move in with my sister cuz she was going through it so she brought me along with her so I can see how her foster mother treat her she act like she was a good lady but she was very mean I feel like she just did it for the money I hate this woman so much Donna birth she treated me like I was a slave not like if I was a human being she used to call me out my name stupid black bitch her voice Replay in my brain over and over again God damn I didn't know you was that goddamn stupid I used to get verbal abuse she couldn't deal with me anymore so she used to send me to the mental complex and she used to tell them that I'm trying to harm myself so they can give me medication to mess me up in the future I remember she had me in the mental complex over a month when I got out I really start misbehaving I was just tired of being in foster care I don't want to be there anymore start misbehaving hoping that they would move me somewhere else this is my story and my name is Tiara I am 21 years old and I hope the story help someone else.
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