This is an account of both despair and hope, abuse and kindness, crime and virtue, love and hate. It takes you through harrowing tales of imprisonment and freedom, abandonment and redemption, fear and courage, addiction and recovery. It is a journey to healing and spiritual awakening. This story is based upon actual events. However, some of the characters and incidents portrayed and some of the names herein are fictitious, and with respect to such characters and incidents, any similarity to the name, character or history of any person, living or dead, or any actual event is entirely coincidental and unintentional. This is to protect the innocent and also to some extent the guilty.