User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-27550231-20160918173325/@comment-28358106-20160918181305

Aegis: "Hey! He can't handle what now??"

Me: "Calm down, kiddo. He's just being Jorge.  Now as to my own kids, they pretty much handle themselves..."

Lucida: "That's RIGHT."

Me: "Sigh...as I was saying, they're really good kids. They occasionally squabble, but that's what happens when you live in the same place with the same people day after day.  It happens.  The kids get along great the rest of the time and treat each other so well, I have nothing to worry about.  As to why we're starting a foster home..."

I fold my hands and sit quietly for several moments.

"For most of my life I've seen the effects of war, and what it does to people. But when I found Aurora, she was in...bad shape.  Very bad shape.  I wasn't sure if she was going to live, and if she did, I couldn't just take her in, heal her, and leave her to her fate; she had no parents, nowhere to go.  There are other children who stay at the orphanage in the capital, but the ones who get hurt, or are abused, and have nothing...they need somewhere to belong, someone to be with them.  If I can be that person and have that place, I will."

Regina: "And it wasn't just his idea. We discussed it at length, with the girls as well. Everyone will be here to help."

(The girls all nod)