Burrell and Leanna fostered 173 newborns over 36 years. Burrell says the hardest part is preparing a baby to leave: '… you put all yourself into taking care of that baby – and then he’s gone, or she’s gone. And it just brings you to tears.” (KUT)
Burrell W. Lankford is 77 years old and lives a block away from Mark in Southwest Austin. He’s retired now, but used to work at the Texas Comptroller's office.
He leads us to the kitchen table and Mark jumps right in. He asks Burrell how he and his wife started fostering. “She liked children. She liked babies particularly, and I was a little concerned she would want to adopt all the children that would walk through our door,” he says. “I had this vision of driving the family around in one of these big, yellow school buses.”“Then from there on, it was just baby after baby,” he says.
The newborns definitely turned some heads, though. When his own kids hit high school, Burrell remembers they had to bring the babies to a back-to-school event. "You put all yourself into taking care of that baby - and then he's gone, or she's gone. And it just brings you to tears." “Our first longterm baby, when that baby left, it was hard on all of us in the family,” Burrell says. “It hurts. I mean, you get so adjusted and then you put all yourself into taking care of that baby – and then he’s gone, or she’s gone. And it just brings you to tears.”
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