Unpopular Opinion:

I posted this on my personal IG yesterday because I knew there was going to be narratives dropped into the dialogues about Ma’Kiah Bryant’s murder, especially after hearing about her being in foster care.

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As someone who grew up understanding what foster care was based on my mother stepping in to take in my aunties(her youngest sister) babies, and yes they were in danger, because it was during the 80’s crack epidemic.

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For the sake of real estate on this thread, I’m going to spare intricate details...

My aunt married her high school sweetheart, an engineer, who was killed in a motorcycle accident, while she was pregnant with my cousin. She had a nervous breakdown. She was never the same 3/?