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He was five years old the first time the system took him. What followed was a decade of foster placements, a closed-door adoption, boys ranches in Arizona and Texas, and Provo Canyon School in Utah — where children were sedated, beaten, and billed to Medicaid while the facility's investors collected returns. When the institutions were done with him, the streets were next. Gangs. Homeless camps. People dying around him one by one. He survived anyway. The True Life Story of Nobody is his account of that journey — and an investigation into the four-hundred-year machinery behind it. From John Sutter's California slave empire to the Wall Street firms that own today's troubled youth facilities, the pipeline that processed him has never stopped running. It is not broken. It is working exactly as designed.