This young lady inspired me today

I am priveledged to have been asked to take photographs for a local Foster Care Foundation. Today was their first fund raising event and I took photographs of the foster children. I just felt so taken by this young girl. I had to share her beauty. She inspired me, through all of her hardships in life and her teenaged desire to fit in and have a "normal" life, she sat in the midst of chaos today in a corner doing her math homework. She couldn't believe I came in the room to get her to take her photograph. She has no parents, but said she was only taking half of the day off of school for this event. What??? She finished what she needed to do, changed her clothes, ate a small lunch and headed off to school. Every other child there took the whole day off.

A great day for me.