"He threatened them with charges until they agreed to transfer custody. It was kind of a bluff, because he didn't intend on ever going through with it. Even if he won the case against them, he still didn't have any rights to me, and I would have ended up in foster care all over again. So the day of my eleventh birthday, he got them to sign the paperwork, took me with him and ran. It was the best day of my life." 