"They kept whispering back and forth and acting weird. They were all laughing."
Carrie prostituted herself for drugs. As a registered nurse, educated and articulate, she never expected to go so low.
Then I actually started dating a boy who used them recreationally. It led me to use them more and more, which led to a path of just, it led to addiction. I started to become dependent on them.
"I was the girl on top of the bar with money being put on me, not remembering any of it the next morning."
I was sixteen when I got pregnant, at the end of my ninth grade year. I met Cory who ended up being my daughter’s father. I quit hanging out with all my friends on the cheer leading team, and started hanging out with his frie...
"Suddenly I felt the real power and presence of God. It was like fire and electricity shooting through my body."
Within four weeks, I had lost my husband, my house, my job.
I’m driving home from work, and an eighteen-wheeler comes across two lanes of traffic and it rear-ends me; slams my car into the guardrail. My seat actually broke off the hinges. The seat belt locked, and my back torqued. I s...
All of my life my family has been drug addicts, prostitutes, and different things. I didn't grow up in a very good household.