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Loushanda Battle: Overcoming Obstacles

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Loushanda Battle has a smile that can light up a room. However, her life has been anything but easy. She struggled to conceive her three children. She was also raised by her grandmother, who also raised foster children. Loushanda works as a school bus driver. Many of the children who rode the bus lived in foster homes. Loushanda could not stand seeing children being raised without a loving family. Seeing the children get dropped off at a foster home brought tears to her eyes.

That is why Loushanda decided to adopt a six-year-old named Jacarri. A short time later, she got a call saying that Jacarri 's siblings were living in foster homes. Loushanda decided to adopt all of Jacarri 's siblings, who are one, two, four and five-years-old.

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