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View Comments PHILO - Social worker Karee Stemm remembers one day in particular when she knew she was in the right job. Staring at a child at Journey Home Foster Care and Adoption Center, Karee tried to comfort the frustrated child. The girl, with furrowed eyebrows and crossed arms, told Karee, You just don t get it. Well, I actually do, Karee recalls telling her. Karee herself spent the majority of her childhood in the foster care system, bouncing between homes in the Zanesville area and surrounding counties from infancy until she was adopted at age 14. It became her passion to give foster children the best, most normal life possible while growing up in an unstable, sometimes traumatic setting. It s a normal life she wants to provide for her own son an daughter the type Karee never had herself. ....