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Foster kids have a heart set on home
By Mike Wilson, Times Staff Writer
Published February 15, 2008
Each year around Valentine's Day, bay area children's advocates unveil a photo exhibit of foster kids who are looking for adoptive homes. - This year, the Hillsborough Heart Gallery and the Pinellas-Pasco Heart Gallery together feature 150 kids in search of families. - Showing pictures works. Forty percent of the kids in the 2007 galleries were matched with potential families and 20 percent were adopted, according to the organizations. - This week, we introduce you to a few of this year's kids. - Hillsborough Heart Gallery: www.heartgallerytampabay.org, (813) 204-1792; Pinellas-Pasco Heart Gallery: heartgallerykids.org, (727) 456-0637. Nicholas, age 16 FEATURED IN: Pinellas-Pasco Heart Gallery, heartgallerykids.org HEART GALLERY SAYS: "This aspiring actor is passionate about pursuing his dream. Like any true artist, Nicholas maintains a cool persona and slight edge of mystery for the crowds." INTERESTS: Sports, music, friends, pizza, Busch Gardens WISHES FOR: A family with a dog to love and care for
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Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be straightened out. But now they are screwed-up men, scarred by the whippings they endured. Read the story and see a video and portrait gallery.
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