The Day the Judge Changed Her Name
In a county courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee, a seven-year-old girl named Maria sat in a wooden chair too big for her, swinging her legs nervously....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 62:1-5.
In a county courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee, a seven-year-old girl named Maria sat in a wooden chair too big for her, swinging her legs nervously. For three years she had been Case Number 2019-JV-4471. Foster homes had shuffled her between zip codes. School records listed her as "temporary placement." Social workers, however kind, referred to her file before they remembered her face.…
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