Everybody looks forward to their 21st birthday, but in my case, I'm old enough to not have

anywhere to live.

I'm old enough to be subjected to homelessness.

Christina Abraham is a child of the foster care system.

Born in Harlem, she's lived in New York City her entire life.

Her 21st birthday looms like a day of reckoning.

Over a period of five months, we visited with Christina repeatedly, learning about her life

in foster care as she prepared to age out of it.

Did any of your foster parents treat you like you were their actual child?

No.

Not one.

Nope.

The best experience I've had with foster parent is a foster parent who did nothing.

I rather you do nothing than actively make my life harder.

How did that change you, living with people who weren't caring for you, feeling that

sense of instability all the time?

It made me feel terrible.

It made me feel like I didn't matter.

I struggled with my mental health.

I struggled with depression.

I was diagnosed with depression at 10 years old.

I felt like, you know, I could die tomorrow and nobody would know.

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