All foster children's names are changed. Sponsors are the Family Visitation Center with the Children's Home Society, the Junior League of Ocala and the Department of Children and Families. It can hold six girls. Four live there now. One girl who started there, Jade, left the program.
Sapphire comes through the front door, stops short, staring at Pearl.
Pearl has tiny braids all across the front, a new look. The foster parent comes, too, along with her daughter, who looks about Sapphire's age. Sapphire is nervous. She keeps looking at everyone with eyes wide as saucers. Standing off to one side is Diamond.