AI Answer
It sounds like you have gone through a very challenging and complex experience with foster care and adoption. It's clear that your journey has had its ups and downs, but it's also incredibly inspiring that you are using your story to impact and support foster families. Your book, which aims to support foster families for sustainable holidays, is a wonderful way to give back to a system that has been a part of your life. It's commendable that you are using your experiences to make a positive impact, and I can imagine that your story could provide valuable insight and support to others who have gone through similar experiences. If there's anything specific you'd like to share or ask about your background and upbringing in foster care, feel free to let me know.

GDL Steven Benedict

I , I'll give you the highlights of things but uh I was raised in out of foster homes . I was put into foster care twice once at four months , uh due to neglect and abandonment and then put back into my mother's hands . Then my brother was born and we were living in a motel room , very unstable situation , very volatile .

GDL Steven Benedict

But being elderly , taking care of two toddlers was unsustainable for them . So our next best thing was to be put back into foster care and we were put back into foster care for about another six years where we bounced up and down around the east coast and then landed into a semi permanent home for the latter part of our foster care experience . And then we were blessed enough to be adopted at the ages of eight and six by two amazing individuals .

GDL Steven Benedict

Do you have ? I , I'll give you the highlights of things but uh I was raised in out of foster homes . I was put into foster care twice once at four months , uh due to neglect and abandonment and then put back into my mother's hands .

GDL Steven Benedict

We intentions at the tone but habits allowing you to shine this book . Um You also um have a fostering system . You do a lot .

GDL Steven Benedict

Out of all the things that you do ? I mean , you know , you're helping the foster care system , you've got this great book . Uh you , you're a runner .