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Court House Marriage- Only a few weeks after Janea has aged out of the foster care system she marries Sam Lopez, also a foster care child. They skipped the big wedding for the altar in the Orange County Marriage License Office in Santa Ana.

Emancipation Dance--With her fiery-red dyed hair and skin tight dress Janea gyrates on the dance floor at a graduation party. She is one of the hundred or so Orange County's newest foster-care graduates. Declared unadoptable, she spent the last six…

Crashing Into Adulthood-Freedom-After ricocheting through a dozen foster homes over the past six years, including a detour to a Utah home for disturbed girls, Janea's life as a foster child ends today. Purple hair and tattoos hidden beneath her cap…

Firemen search through the rubble of Ground Zero on the first night of the September 11th World Trade Center Attack.

Lone American flag still stands among the destruction of the World Trade Center as firemen gather below.

Civilians try to extinguish an ambulance on fire among the rubble of the World Trade Center Attack.

September 11th Under Attack - An unidentified businessman stops for picture after surviving the World Trade Center Attack.

A New York Police officer holds her head in grief after fleeing from the second tower of the World Trade Center collapsing.

People evacuate from the base of the World Trade Center after the first tower collapsed.

Rescue workers carry Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal Judge from the rubble before the second tower of the World Trade Center collapsed. Father Judge was said to have been killed by a jumper while performing the last rights on a victim of the…