In his time in the Ohio foster-care system, Arron Jones-Williams had moments where he felt like a commodity to some foster parents. He once remembered being dropped off with a family and left in the garage while the family went out to dinner with their son who had just returned from military duty the same day.
“It’s tough when everything to a foster care kid is not sunshine and rainbows,” he says. “You understand the world a little faster than other kids. It taught me to have a glass half full, but I’m always optimistic. And if I wasn’t, I’d be so depressed.”
When he first arrived from Ohio to New York City, where he currently resides, Jones-Williams sat down in Central Park when a bulldog came up to him, scoffed at him, and walked away. The owner quickly ran up to him to apologize…