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Foster Care, Part 3: Celebrities Lend a Hand

Hollywood screenwriter Antwone Fisher wrote a movie about it, and Young and the Restless star Victoria Rowell started a charity for it. In the third part of our week-long look at foster care in America, NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to both celebrities about the foster care system they grew up in and are now trying to change.

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