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The Arcuris were excited, scared and nervous all at once last October as they finished their state certification to become foster parents.
Carolyn and Geno, married for 15 years, heard about the dire need for foster families and had decided to ditch their original plan to adopt. They completed a 10-week course and passed a home examination and interviews by the state to become certified........
........... Five days after the Arcuris' foster boys arrived, the court ordered them to be returned to their original family. Just like that, the Arcuris were back to an empty house and working for their event coordination business, Carolyn Dempsey Design Inc., in Port Chester, N.Y.
Physically and mentally exhausted from the 'whirlwind week,' Carolyn Arcuri said they decided they weren't ready to take more children, despite repeated calls from the state.
After a few months of introspection, though, they changed their minds.........
More months went by, and then the two boys the Arcuris looked after in the fall came back, this time for a longer stay. The Arcuris have tried to expose the boys to new experiences too, like going on vacation.
The boys are expected to return to their birth family again at the end of the summer, and that presents a new challenge for the Arcuris.
Seeing the children leave will be difficult, they said, because they have become emotionally attached to them, but they are also proud of how the children have developed.
'Maybe this was our calling,' Carolyn Arcuri said. 'It was all worth it.'
Other Greenwich families should experience the power of making a difference in a child's life, she said.
'It's a perfect opportunity for people in Greenwich to realize there's a need,' she said. 'Just try it once.'
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Source: Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc publishers of the Greenwich Time
Date Published: August 5, 2007
Source Location: Greenwich, CT
Reporter: Andrew Shaw
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