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Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System by Susan Sheehan Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-679-75450-4 / 0679754504 ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75450-3 / 9780679754503 On October 7, 1984, Crystal Taylor gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Daquan. Crystal was only fourteen. She was living with a boyfriend whom she was too young to marry, and her mother was addicted to heroin and cocaine. So under the law, Crystal and Daquan became wards of New York State’s fost |