“Those are the best years of my life.”
Valvree Kerr was 55 years old when she first explored fostering. Her own kids now grown, she and her husband were left with an empty nest. But that all changed the day Antoinette Mimes and her two sisters arrived… Read Full Story unexpectedly to join the family. Ten years later, both women describe how their lives changed the day they met.
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