Chapter 4
May 1990Cam had spent the first six months away from his father in Red Deer, Alberta, living in a group home designed to help abused children recover physically, mentally, and emotionally from their traumas. After that he was shuffled from one creepy foster home to the next even creepier one, until he was finally taken in by a family for possible permanent placement a little over one hundred kilometres northeast of Red Deer in Camrose.
His new foster parents were orderly, suburban, upstanding citizens with a nice home and respectable, secure jobs. The whole family was caring and concerned for Cam’s welfare; they were everything he wasn’t used to. It took quite a bit of adjusting to live with people he didn’t know and wasn’t entirely sure he wanted to know. He had to adapt to a
