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SAN ANGELO — Home for Destany Ellis-Dearborn used to be an emergency shelter in Colorado. Then, at the age of 12, it became a series of beds — one at an aunt's house and another with a grandparent, bouncing from relative to relative until Destany began living with a group of six other girls in the Texas foster care system.
It's been five years, but the word 'home' has at last taken on a new and more familiar — more permanent — meaning.
On Tuesday, July 6, 2021, Kristin Ellis-Dearborn and Stephanie Ellis-Dearborn became Destany's mother and mother, officially adopting the 17-year-old into their family after spending ten months as Destany's foster parents.