Damara Clark with 3-year-old Amary Lockridge, who was born with spinal bifida and required dozens of medical appointments. “Just that little bit helps,” Clark said of the income program. In a home on the edge of St. Paul’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood, presents sat neatly wrapped under the Christmas tree as 3-year-old Amary Lockridge climbed onto Damara Clark’s lap for a hug.
Clark, a 52-year-old mother of three adult children and grandmother of 10, agreed to be Amary’s foster mom in 2020. When she took full legal custody of the child about a year later, Clark quit work to care for Amary, […]
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