BELLEVILLE • Though Myra Holman is Baptist, she might not have ever become a foster parent if she hadn't been recruited by Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois. Over the past decade or so, she's lost count of how many children she's taken in, perhaps a dozen.

One child hoarded food. Another, already a teenage mother, snuck a man into the house at night. Then there was the time somebody held a dull knife to his own neck and screamed from the front porch that he was going to kill himself.

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