FOR SEPERATED FAMILYS, CITY NEVER SEEMED BIGGER

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	FOR SEPERATED FAMILYS, CITY NEVER SEEMED BIGGER

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12-28-2008 2:43 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/88d6b1c2-461e-4121-9192-8071f35eacbb/D7F0902D-31F2-4C5D-A069-1875F7E64C88/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/nyregion/29foster.html?th&emc=th" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/nyregion/29foster.html?th&emc=th" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/nyregion/29foster.html?th&emc=th"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/E2EA7827-F700-472F-9DFD-5B206362D4B5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/nyregion/29foster.html?th&emc=th"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0">
For Separated Families, City Never Seemed Bigger
</NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/nyregion/29foster.html?th&emc=th"><P class="caption">
Anita and Ronald Crosby had a weekend visit in their Bronx home from four of their five children, who have been placed in a foster home on Long Island.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/nyregion/29foster.html?th&emc=th"><P>On good days, it takes Marilyn Loesch two hours to get from her home in Queens to the foster care agency on Staten Island where she is expected for weekly visits with her two daughters. On bad days — when the bus she takes to the subway and the subway she takes to the ferry don’t cooperate — the commute can be three hours.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/nyregion/29foster.html?th&emc=th"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/C8B957AF-937A-4587-BB6D-D1CE7B95B197" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/nyregion/29foster.html?th&emc=th"><P class="caption">
To visit their children, the Crosbys must make a two-hour commute on three buses from their apartment in the Bronx to a foster care office in Queens. 
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