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X-WR-CALDESC:Get your questions ready! We are excited to announce author of
  Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir\, Shenandoah Chefalo\, will be joining us 
 virtually for a live Q&A discussion! \nThe first 20 people to register wil
 l receive a FREE copy of her book.\n\nShenandoah Chefalo is on a wholly dy
 sfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful\, drug-and alcohol
  addicted parents. She endures numerous moves in the middle of the night w
 ith just minutes to pack\, multiple changes in schools\, hunger\, cruelty\
 , and loneliness.\n\nFinally at the age of 13\, Shen had had enough. After
  being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother’s retirement 
 community\, she asks to be put into foster care.\n\nSurely she would fare 
 better at a stable home than living with her mother?\n\nIt turns out that 
 it was not the storybook ending she had hoped for. When a car accident lan
 ds her in the hospital with grave injuries and no one comes to visit her d
 uring her three-week stay\, she realizes she is truly all alone in the wor
 ld.\n\nOvercoming many adversities\, Shen became part of the 3% of all fos
 ter care children who get into college\, and the 1% who graduate.\n\nDespi
 te her numerous achievements in life though\, she still suffers from the l
 ong-term effects of neglect\, and the coping skills that she adapted in he
 r childhood are not always productive in her adult life.\n\nGarbage Bag Su
 itcase is not only the inspiring and hair-raising story of one woman’s jou
 rney to over- come her desolate childhood\, but it also presents grass-roo
 t solutions on how to revamp the broken foster care system.
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DESCRIPTION:Get your questions ready! We are excited to announce author of 
 Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir\, Shenandoah Chefalo\, will be joining us v
 irtually for a live Q&A discussion! \nThe first 20 people to register will
  receive a FREE copy of her book.\n\nShenandoah Chefalo is on a wholly dys
 functional journey through a childhood with neglectful\, drug-and alcohol 
 addicted parents. She endures numerous moves in the middle of the night wi
 th just minutes to pack\, multiple changes in schools\, hunger\, cruelty\,
  and loneliness.\n\nFinally at the age of 13\, Shen had had enough. After 
 being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother’s retirement c
 ommunity\, she asks to be put into foster care.\n\nSurely she would fare b
 etter at a stable home than living with her mother?\n\nIt turns out that i
 t was not the storybook ending she had hoped for. When a car accident land
 s her in the hospital with grave injuries and no one comes to visit her du
 ring her three-week stay\, she realizes she is truly all alone in the worl
 d.\n\nOvercoming many adversities\, Shen became part of the 3% of all fost
 er care children who get into college\, and the 1% who graduate.\n\nDespit
 e her numerous achievements in life though\, she still suffers from the lo
 ng-term effects of neglect\, and the coping skills that she adapted in her
  childhood are not always productive in her adult life.\n\nGarbage Bag Sui
 tcase is not only the inspiring and hair-raising story of one woman’s jour
 ney to over- come her desolate childhood\, but it also presents grass-root
  solutions on how to revamp the broken foster care system.
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LOCATION:60 S. High Street\, Main Library Meeting rooms AB\, Akron\, OH 443
 26 US
SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB: Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir
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