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The life of eight-year-old Jennings Michael Burch changed the rainy day in 1949 when his mother, Rita Catherine Hogan Burch, took him to a strange place in Brooklyn and told him, “I’ll be right back.” For the next four years, Burch spent most of his time in a series of orphanages and foster homes with only a few brief interludes when he was able to live with his mother and five brothers. In his autobiography, //They Cage the Animals at Night//, Burch again becomes a child and recalls his life during those years.