Can I just say that I find it inspiring that you can say that so openly. I've been fostered for nearly 11 years, and I'm still feeling the clutches of my mother. This christmas was the first happy one ever, as my mother sent me the present of 'freedom' (she disinherited me), but to hear that some people survive is great, and makes me happy and hopeful that one day I'll be able to claim that too.