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Cypher


"I am not sure when I started using but I do remember when I was pretty young swigging cough syrup then hitting the liquor cabinet so that I could kinda glide through the abuse. Yup, everyone’s got a secret."

One of hers is that she was badly abused in every way by one of her parents giving her liquor to drink to keep her quiet.
At 12 at a party she smoked pot and ate some downs to crash. "After that I was in love."

"He showed me what real unconditional love was. He took me home with him, cleaned me up, fed me, and held me while I kicked and never asked for a thing in return." "It did for me what no one had ever done for me. Loved me un-condi-tionally. It was there for me to keep me safe and hide me."
On a rainy day at 15 she left home,no money, one change of clothes and of course the stash. By then she had been using heroin a lot. She stole food, money anything she could find, from anybody.
"Didn’t matter where I lived either. I woke up in some of the nastiest places with the nastiest bugs and rats walking on me. I didn’t care, I could always forget with my next hit.

Ya can't have enough money and ya can't get high enough. Two all too real facts in her life at the time"
After overdosing a few times she decided to face her hell head on. When she told her dealer she was done for good he punched her cold out and duck-taped her to a bed.
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