Summary Of An Abandoned Child's Journey By Jerri Diane Sueck

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If you like inspiring true stories this book is for you. Letter’s My Mother Never Read: An Abandoned Child’s Journey is a true story written by Jerri Diane Sueck about her survival through her tragic childhood. This heartbreaking story about a girl named Jerri who was only 8 years old when her mother died from a trailer fire. Readers will love her and see her as an inspiration to orphans, foster children, or anyone who has ever been abandoned. Jerri is a strong headed person and will not back down no matter what obstacle she encounters. Her and her four siblings were sent to live people that didn’t love her and she was vulnerable against them. They went to go live with the Resubas, which was the next horrible stage in her life. They treated them as if …show more content…

Jerri knew the Resubas would never love her and her brothers a much as she love her flesh and blood grandchild Alice. Some time later they were sent to an orphanage where she was split up from her twin brothers Trevor and Tyler. Her oldest brother was sent to a different orphanage because he was too old. In the orphanage she started to have a different view on things that she never had before. Hoping she gets adopted she ends up going through two foster homes and unfortunately back to the orphanage. At this time Jerri is 14 years old and now understands what it’s like to be stuck in the revolving doors of foster care. She is no longer interested in the hopes of finding a forever home and she believes that it is better to live at the orphanage for the next four years. Back at the orphanage she was the oldest girl and was in charge of helping out with the younger girl. Her main focus is helping out at the orphanage and school. She was soon to be attending High School and later on College. Beside school and the orphanage, Jerri is slowing finding herself and making something of herself without a real

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