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The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 5th study session on Roxanna Asgarian's We Were A Family: A Story of Love, Death, & Child Removal in America. Gus has been asking listeners to locate the "love" in this narrative. Maybe you can help us locate the "family" in all this too. This is our penultimate session on the disgraceful mass murder of 6 "adopted" non-white children by two lesbian White Women. All of these children - including Devonte Hart - were abducted from the state of Texas. In the time we've been reading this book, the Texas Child Welfare system has been fined and charged with wanton neglect - including 49 children dying while in foster care over the past 4 years. Gus suspects most of those 49 fatalities were non-white children. Last week, Asgarian detailed the White side of the tragedy. Abigail, Markis and Hannah all have a White mother, Tammy Scheurich. She produced offspring with 3 different black males. The Suspected Racist author demonstrates the same pattern: omitting the de