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And we return to our American stories.

Up next, we're going to hear a story of faith, redemption, and overcoming. Here's Terry

Neil with her story beginning with her childhood.

The earliest memories of me, like four or five, I knew what drugs were.

It was just out in front of us. It wasn't hidden.

You know, they were so wrapped up in their addiction. They just used kind of in front of us.

I could remember it's just being at different houses like I would be with her aunts or our grandma or just back and forth.

There was fighting between both families.

When I was one, my mom did leave my dad and she met my stepdad about a week later and started using heroin with him.

So me and my sister were constantly back and forth

between my mother and my father.

My dad wasn't addicted to heroin,

but he was an alcoholic and addicted to other,

like psychedelic drugs.

So we weren't cared for really well.

My mom started getting arrested when I was almost two. so she was in and out of jail a lot.

So when we were with her, me and my sister were with my grandmother, her mother.

And my grandmother didn't just have us.

She had my cousins and I and my sister.

Out of my mother's family, there is five children,

all of them were drug addicts.

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