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These are scenes from life in a foster family

Ventura County Star
Sabrina Boyer, right, and her foster daughter Angie work in the kitchen to prepare a cake. Angie has been living with Boyer since February.
Sabrina Boyer, right, and her foster daughter Angie work in the kitchen to prepare a cake. Angie has been living with Boyer since February.
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Sabrina Boyer talks to her foster daughter Angie as they prepare a cake in the Oxnard home they share. Boyer and Angie are part of an intensive services foster care program.
Sabrina Boyer talks to her foster daughter Angie as they prepare a cake in the Oxnard home they share. Boyer and Angie are part of an intensive services foster care program.
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Angie (right) and her foster parent Sabrina Boyer have developed a good relationship after being paired up earlier this year. "I was in desperate need of a new home," said Angie. "I was willing to try anything."
Angie (right) and her foster parent Sabrina Boyer have developed a good relationship after being paired up earlier this year. "I was in desperate need of a new home," said Angie. "I was willing to try anything."
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Angie is a foster child who earlier this year was paired with a new foster parent in Oxnard. Now 16, she has been in the foster system since the age of 13.
Angie is a foster child who earlier this year was paired with a new foster parent in Oxnard. Now 16, she has been in the foster system since the age of 13.
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Angie works in the kitchen of the Oxnard home she shares with her foster mother.
Angie works in the kitchen of the Oxnard home she shares with her foster mother.
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A cake is placed into the oven after being prepared by Sabrina Boyer and her foster daughter Angie.
A cake is placed into the oven after being prepared by Sabrina Boyer and her foster daughter Angie.
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Sabrina Boyer and her foster daughter Angie prepare a cake in the kitchen of the Oxnard home they share.
Sabrina Boyer and her foster daughter Angie prepare a cake in the kitchen of the Oxnard home they share.
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Sabrina Boyer and her foster daughter Angie prepare a cake.
Sabrina Boyer and her foster daughter Angie prepare a cake.
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Sabrina Boyer talks about her experience as foster parent. She had cared for adolescent girls in the foster care system before being paired with Angie earlier this year.
Sabrina Boyer talks about her experience as foster parent. She had cared for adolescent girls in the foster care system before being paired with Angie earlier this year.
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