Stephine and Jose are both very strong people that wanted to do better for themselves. I want to specifically focus on Stephine's story. Stephine started off telling us that she was in an abusive home with her daughter and could not take it any more and wanted out. I gave her props for realizing that she was not in a good situation. She continued to struggle and and became an addict in the mean time. Traveled from home to home sometimes without her daughter. With all the stress going on in her life she did not know how to deal with it and started drinking and "it" became her best friend. In the end she decided that this was not going to be her life anymore and decided to change after 8 long years of torture and struggles. Many people like Stephine who was homeless do change and can make the world a better place little by little. She said a comment about how she would get spare change from people and go get booze to last her the day and not really worry about her daughter. I was really upset hearing that she said that but when someone is addicted to a substance , that becomes your priority. I did not realize that until later how difficult it is. On a better note Stephine had contributed a lot of her time with Bailey and Jose to help more homeless off the streets. The three of them as well as many others are continuing to change laws and policys so that they have more funds to continue to rescue. I think its a continous struggle but even harder to make the house bill 174 get passed unless you really educate your surrounds. This means higher income tax but the money we pay for that tax will help fund people in need. It can happen if they talk to the people that want to make change.
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