She lost custody of them for a couple years as she battled her own addiction to opioids and cocaine. She told them she wished she could fix all the dysfunctional things that happened when she was using. "The things I blame on generational trauma are not feeling good enough, not feeling worthy enough, not feeling loved," she said. She prayed to her creator to spare her children, and she told her son every day that she loved him. And now in Taylor's shaking hands, she holds her son's picture — another face for the posterboard, lost January 11, 2021.

Source: Ethiopian News December 23, 2021 06:22 UTC