Sherri Saum Plays a Lesbian Mom for 'A New Kind of Family' in The Fosters

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        Sherri Saum Plays a Lesbian Mom for 'A New Kind of Family' in The Fosters 
     
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Sherri Saum Plays a Lesbian Mom for 'A New Kind of Family' in The Fosters

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