Museum of Anthropology 2013 | Page 6

Abandonment ~Take it however you want! by Mari Luscombe Cooking, cleaning, entertaining my three little brothers and taking care of them. Experiencing the fact that my mother and dad had left us. It changed me years ago and till this day. Two days after my 9th birthday in 2006, we were sent to a foster home, not knowing the people in this new house was terrifying! In the first couple of years of living in this house, I struggled… A LOT! I had to learn to be a kid and go to school and learn not to be in control and be the mother of my three younger brothers. Through the course of nine years living in the house, I have changed, not only physically but spiritually and mentally. When I met the lady who was in charge of us, she was very hard to get to know because she was a complet R7G&