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...children normal lives. Some of them got started as foster parents because they knew the birth mother, or because they came to know the children in their jobs as nurses or social workers. They got together for the first time as a group with the help of Rachel Rossow, who works for the state's department of children and youth services in the oxymoronic capacity of consultant and saint. Except at this monthly meeting, in one of their homes, they don't talk about what they do. They use pseudonyms and avoid the word AIDS, especially around the children. They...
...know what I'm asking them to go through," says Rossow, who is mother to 16 adopted children, many of them severely handicapped, plus three of her own. Apart from her more formal duties as a consultant, she serves the foster families as a sort of group mother and their public stand-in. "And yet I also know that the only reason it's going to hurt so much when the child dies is because they loved him so much when he was alive." For this privilege, the state pays the foster families a monthly stipend...
...first step for us toward the tour," club President Bruce Rossow said, referring to the squad's eight-day spring break trip to the Bahamas. "It mattered, but it's not important. We just needed action before the tour...
...Money is not the issue," Rossow said. "We know we'll never be rich, but we will get along...
...looking for a handout," Rossow said. "We're only looking to confirm what we already have...