What the System Couldn't Take

What the System Couldn't TakeA Powerful Story of Foster Care, Addiction, Faith, and RedemptionAt five years old, Mariah Elena is taken from her teenage mother and placed into foster care. What's supposed to be temporary turns into thirteen years of instability—strangers' homes, trash bags for suitcases, and a childhood shaped by silence and survival.Her mother, Lila Grace, does everything the cour...