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"How do you hide from the monsters in your own house? Anna Snow, caught in the foster care merry-go-round, is still being shuffled from house to house, but none of them are ever really home. By the time she's ten years old, she's been moved twelve times, three of them happening in under three months. Anna finds a measure of love in one home, but the system yanks her away, simply because her caring foster mother is Black. Anna's also still dealing with the ache of being separated from her brother. Her only connection to him is the teddy bear he dropped as he was ripped from her arms. She'll never see her brother again, but she clings to the bear, along with her treasured Raggedy Doll, reminding her she is not alone through each wrenching move. In each foster home she finds a place to hide from those hurting her, but she'll soon discover she'll need to find hiding spots again to escape a far more horrific kind of abuse. In this fourth book in the ""Garbage Bag Life"" series, Anna is forced to face unimaginable loss and the dangers to a young girl growing up in a system rife with groomers and abusers."

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"Dr. Sharon Zaffarese-Dippold's writing comes from her own lived experiences as a child who experienced multiple foster care and family placement moves involving all forms of childhood abuse and trauma. Dr. Dippold attended approximately ten or more schools during her formative years as she moved from place to place. In spite of that, she earned a Bachelor in Social Work, a Masters in Social Work, and earned her PhD in Human Services from Capella University with a concentration in Human Behavior/Counseling Studies.Her Doctoral Dissertation was published in 2016, The Lived Experience Of Former Foster Children Who Had to Move Their Belongings In Garbage Bags. A public speaker and trainer on foster care topics related to her story, her experience with bullying led her to create ""INAM- It's Not About Me,"" an anti-bullying program that she presents in the school systems to deflect the impact of being bullied on children.Dr. Zaffarese-Dippold lives in Saint Mary's, Pennsylvania, with her husband, where she enjoys spending time with her children and grand-children. For motivational speaking, book signings, or training events, please contact Dr.Dippold@gmail.com or ZeeTPublishing@gmail.com."

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