Just Another Goodbye: A Foster Care Story Based on True Events

by Sharon Zaffarese-Dippold

Overview

Anna Snow and her little brother Curtis are on the move again, to yet another foster family. After the abuse she's suffered, she doesn't think it could get any worse, but it can. Curtis is ripped from her arms, sent to a different family. This is more than just another goodbye. This is losing the only person who's been her constant companion, the one person she loves. Powerless, all she can do is hold the teddy bear he dropped and cry as he's dragged out of her life.

Anna is now truly alone. What will she do without her brother? It isn't long before she's moved again, and then again, from family to family, each time stuffing everything in her life into a garbage bag, feeling rejected, as if she herself is trash that nobody wants.


Anna's journey continues in this third book of the series, a riveting story of loss, pain, and sorrow as she navigates her garbage bag life as a child in the foster care system.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160863368
Publisher:	ZeeT Publishing
Publication date:	04/29/2023
Series:	Garbage Bag Life , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	748,288
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Dr. Sharon Zaffarese-Dippold’s writing comes from her own lived experiences as a child who experienced multiple foster care and family placement moves involving all forms of childhood abuse and trauma. Dr. Dippold attended approximately ten or more schools during her formative years as she moved from place to place. In spite of that, she earned a Bachelor in Social Work, a Masters in Social Work, and earned her PhD in Human Services from Capella University with a concentration in Human Behavior/Counseling Studies. Her Doctoral Dissertation was published in 2016, The Lived Experience Of Former Foster Children Who Had to Move Their Belongings In Garbage Bags. A public speaker and trainer on foster care topics related to her story, her experience with bullying led her to create “INAM- It’s Not About Me,” an anti-bullying program that she presents in the school systems to deflect the impact of being bullied on children. Dr. Zaffarese-Dippold lives in Saint Mary’s, Pennsylvania, with her husband, where she enjoys spending time with her children and grandchildren. She has been recognized for donating 20% of all net proceeds from her first book, “Just Another Slice,” to the Organization “Together We Rise,” which helps foster children to be moved with dignity by replacing garbage bags with duffel bags. 10% of proceeds from “Just Another Raggedy Doll” will be donated to the RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) organization.