On a misty evening in Brooklyn, Jennings Michael Burchs mother, too sick to care for him, left her eight-year-old son at an orphanage with the words, Ill be right back. She wasnt.Shuttled through a bleak series of foster homes, orphanages, and institutions, Jennings never remained in any of them long enough to make a friend. Instead, he clung to a tattered stuffed animal named Doggie, his sole source of comfort in a frightening world.Here, in his...