Kimberley was a very interesting person to listen to. I never really had someone come into class and speak deeply about her life. I really appreciated her doing so because it made me realize that every person on the street is not the same but similar. She was in and out of jail five times and during her in between times of not being in jail she was a drug abuser as she stated and a prostitute. I think what takes a big part in the mess she was in was that she was raped several times by family members. Thats where I felt she did not care for her body because of the trama that went with her past. Her drugs of choice was heroin and cocaine and would do anything and everything for it. She said it started off getting free heroin from her siblings that were dealing it and then once she became hooked they were not around to support her habit and she went into bad debt trying to support the drug habit and nothing else. She became homeless and had to be on the streets. At first she said it was hard to be on the strett but then it got better with experience and you started to know a lot more people than when you started. Thats when she finally went on the streets and then got pregnant not once but twice.
She has been in and out of the streets for 26 years and is 40 years old. She has been clean for 20 months and decided that she does not want to be in jail anymore and to not do that she had to stay clean. She cleaned up her act and now wants to be a good role model for her two sons but she does not have custody of them and unfortunate one is incarcerated. You have to really truly want to have a better life to be able to change for the better permanently. If you do not, you are in for a disaster and off to the streets you will be. I am very proud of Kimberley that she decided to be better and stop the street living.
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