{"id":258872,"date":"2021-12-15T06:48:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T12:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=258872"},"modified":"2021-12-14T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:47:57","slug":"second-grade-teacher-adopts-student-foster-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/second-grade-teacher-adopts-student-foster-care\/","title":{"rendered":"AMAZING: Second grade teacher adopts student who spent half her life in foster care"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Loralie, age nine, spent 1,445 days in the foster care system. Now, she has found a permanent home with her second-grade teacher Zoe Henry, a single mother who had no plans of adopting until she met Loralie.<\/p>\n

“She came into my class, and I just took one look at her \u2014 her little freckles, her little birthmark,” Henry told ABC 7<\/a>. “I am going to adopt this little girl. She’s my daughter. The minute I set eyes on her.”<\/p>\n

Loralie had been placed in foster care for the first time when she was four. Then she went back with her biological mother when she was five, before being placed in foster care again at age six. When she entered Henry’s classroom two years ago, Henry believed she was going to be adopted into a family, but that didn’t end up happening. Henry asked Loralie’s social worker if she could adopt Loralie, and the adoption was approved.<\/p>\n

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