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AIDS victim’s foster parents are part of special breed
By Lilla Ross - Staff Writer
Arlene Shipley describes the emptiness as a “gaping silence.” Every now and then, the parrotsquawks: “Tashia. Tashia.”
But Tashia is gone. She was an 11-year-old foster child who contracted AIDS through sexualabuse and died March 10-. She was buried in an unmarked grave in Arlington memorial Park. For the past two years, she lived with the Shipleys, her medical foster parents, in their Southsidehome.
