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Hi!
My DH has a cousin who's bi-polar or something (schizophrenia?), depending upon the doc. Her brother settled her in Minnesota, having determined that it had the best resources.
One of her children has been taken in now by the uncle (having been farmed out to various relatives most of his life -- in New Jersey). The other child was taken away by the birth father, with state sanction, shortly after birth, and has never been seen since.
I must tell you -- if you've never lived in a bitterly cold climate, you and all your family would be in for a dreadful shock. I lived 9 years in Manhattan, and have never returned -- in my dreams, it is always sleeting, and I'm walking down a scary, dark street, and there's a hole in my worn-out shoe, and the slush is leaking in and freezing/numbing my toes.
The sad thing is that this actually happened to me. And that's what I dream about.
I don't want to be discouraging, but that was just an awful experience for me. I never again want to be that miserable, that cold, that scared.
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