Jerri is removed from this home, and stays willingly at the orphanage until she is 17. They are even more cruel to Jerri, and deprive her of food, education, and any form of nurturing. They only adopt Tyler, and Jerri is sent to her second foster home: the Wessons. They are supposedly nice, but tell Jerri she is too withdrawn and unacceptable. While Billy is sent to a different orphanage, Trevor, Tyler, and Jerri are sent to their first foster home: the Smiths. Letters My Mother Never Read Flashcards Created by albriananavarro Terms in this set (34) orphanage a public institution for the care of orphans foster care a legal, publicly supported plan in which a maltreated child is removed from the parents' custody and entrusted to another adult, who is paid to be the child's caregiver. All the kids but Alice are locked in a coal cellar and treated like vermin, because only Alice is their "true granddaughter." Later, their stepfather drops them off at an orphanage, and the kids are split up. The kids will go live with their Grandma and Grandpa Resuba in PA, so Jerri decides to write letters to her mother to explain what happens to them. A defective trailer heater causes a fire, and the mother dies. She's my flesh and blood, and you're nothing. I'm glad she's dead, only now I'm stuck with you miserable brats Every penny and minute I spend with you takes away from what I should be giving to Alice. 'I'll never forgive her for marrying my son. Somewhere over Michigan, a colony of monarch butteries, numbering more than fteen thousand, are beginning their yearly migration south. One day, their mother decides to clean their old trailer, and leaves the kids with their Grandma. My son had no business marrying a woman with four kids.' Her voice rises higher as she rages on. A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read The New Yorker 2/10you lived through is long gone, but its ricochets have become taxidermy, enclosed by your own familiar esh. In a virtual minefield of wrong things to say, this letter eloquently says everything I can. ![]() Every day I would bring it to school and read it. This is the most beautiful heartfelt letter I have ever read. My mom was in college at the time and one night she brought home this book. The narrator of the story is Jerri Sueck, who lives in Indiana with her mother, stepfather, three brothers (Trevor and Tyler (twins) and Billy), and their stepsister Alice. My first time ever reading this book was in 3rd grade.
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