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Jennings mother drops him off at The Home of the Angels.
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Jennings meets Mark,a chubby boy who wears glasses.
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Jennings meets Doggie, a tattered stuffed animal that becomes his best companion.
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Jennings meets Stacy, a nice girl.
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Jennings is taken in as a foster child. The family who takes him in doesn't feed him, and abuses him.
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The husband in the family sees that his wife is abusing Jennings, so he brings him back to the Home of the Angels.
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Stacy returns to her family.
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Sister Clair lets Jennings keep Doggie.
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Jennings returns home.
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Jennings meets his brother Jerome. He has never met Jerome before because Jerome is sick.
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Jennings goes to a new school, and to avoid embarassment he decides to take on the name Michael.
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Jennings has to take the city bus home and he befriends his bus driver Sal. They both lived in homes as a child, so they develop a very special bond. Sal thinks of Jennings as his own son.
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Sal's job moves him to the Bronx so Jennings can't see him everyday.
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Jennings decides to run away to the Zoo.
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Jennings learns that the reason he doesn't know his father is because his father is an alcoholic.
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Jennings mom goes up to the roof to try and fix the antenna, but she falls through the roof and breaks many bones.
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Jennings has to go to another home because his mom has been hospitalized.
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Jennings and Mark reunite at this new home. Shortly after they reunite, due to Mark's heart problems he dies.
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Jennings moves to near Stacy and they reunite. They become good friends, but Stacy eventually has to move.
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Jennings is taken in by Officer Daily. But Jennings runs away to the Zoo.
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Sal finds Jennings at the Zoo, because he knew that's where Jennings would be. When they reunite they tell each other that they love each other.