Summary:
3rd HOME!
Next, Astrid is sent to the home of a Hispanic woman named Amelia Ramos. Amelia is an interior designer, originally from Argentina, and lives in Hollywood, with a huge, elegant house. Amelia has a son who has contracted AIDS, but the girls do not see him much. The other foster girls in the house are all Latino. All the girls in Amelia's household, however, are treated the same in that they are fed dinner, but Amelia keeps a lock on her fridge so the girls starve in the mornings. They only get food at night so all through the day they have to find another way to get food. Usually whoever is on food duty at the end of the night sneaks food from the fridge so that the girls have something to eat. Astrid starves to the point that she stops menstruating. Also at lunch Astrid resorts to eating unfinished lunches from the garbage at school. Near the end of this chapter Astrid is assigned a new case worker named Joan Peeler who finds Astrid a new placement after she asks for one.
Notes: -At this home she learns to live for herself and find other ways to survive.
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