The book sounds lovely. I'm still so sorry about your friends who lost their foster kids. For crap's sake, I'm falling apart losing foster *kittens*. I can't even imagine, especially knowing the kids are likely going back to be abused. That's so unbelievably awful.

Are you friends a gay couple? If so, I'm going to be even madder because I'm going to be sure that played some role in the decision not to give the kids to them. If they're not, why the hell DIDN'T they give the kids to them?!