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I would take guys into restaurants and everybody knew to take off their hats. One of the guys, who I still talk to, asked me, “Why do you pray? You know what we do here, right? We sell drugs. Why do you pray? Our business is ...
Then it got to where I was breaking into her house. Then I started buying checks from people, and forging people’s names on everyone else’s checks. Then the burglaries began.
Really, I wanted to die. I was doing all the things that were killing me anyway. I had so much pain, hurt, and hatred I didn’t know how to process any of it.
Then they gang raped me. I came close to dying that night.
They took me to the dessert out in Tucson, AZ and tried to make me dig a hole. They were going to bury me in the hole. So I told them; “Kill me and dig it yourself.”
Within four weeks, I had lost my husband, my house, my job.
"I had an ankle bracelet put on and I couldn’t drink. That year was the greatest year of my life"
"I thought he was crazy at first. I really thought he was crazy."
"Don't pray that I come home real soon because if I come home real soon I'm gonna mess up again real big."