THE NEEDIEST CASES After Foster Care Years, a Woman Becomes a Role Model for Her Sisters (412 hits)
Precious Perry shares a few things in common with the fictional protagonist in the 2009 film “Precious.” Both young women grew up in Harlem with troubled single mothers. Both left home in their teens. And both had their lives changed by social workers who showed them that another life was possible. This is not to say that Ms. Perry, 23, liked the film.
"Ugh, I hate that movie,” she said the other day, sitting in a coffee shop on the Upper West Side. “When it came out, nobody believed my name was Precious. A friend once introduced me as Precious, and the other person got angry, like: ‘Why would you call her that?’ ”
Nevertheless, parts of the movie resonated with her....
