'My foster parents didn't want me. I was left to run wild and endured a childhood of emotional and financial poverty'

'My foster parents didn't want me. I was left to run wild and endured a childhood of emotional and financial poverty'

It is hard to explain the extreme poverty in which I grew up while in foster care. There was little food and my clothes were not much more than rags. I remember seeing a picture of a toothbrush in a discarded magazine and thinking that somebody must have to be very rich to afford one.