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"Three More Words" About Foster Care

Atheneum Books

Ashley Rhodes lived in a foster home.  Then another, and another, and so on.

14 foster homes in all, before she was adopted at age 12. 

Now Ashley Rhodes-Courter, she speaks and writes about her experiences, and the successful life she's built in spite of years of neglect and abuse in the foster system in Florida. 

Her second memoir is Three More Words (after the earlier Three Little Words). 

Ashley joins us with the story of her own foster system experiences, and a broader view of how she'd like to see the system change.

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.