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Hi, my name is Ariel and I'm making this video because one of my oldest friends, Brandy Rossine, is missing.

Hello and welcome to Sword and Scale Season 6 Episode 138, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.

Most good parents tend to be concerned about who their children befriend in their early years and who they date later in their teen years.

You may have heard a certain quote by the famous Booker T. Washington, associate yourself with people of good quality for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

This idea is commonly spouted by parents who are trying to sway their children from hanging out with the wrong crowd.

The reason for this is simple. While we certainly can not directly control another human being, we are able to heavily influence them. And for some people, having that kind of power can be intoxicating.

Unlike children, mature adults are more easily able to see how one simple friend choice can shift the course of a person's entire life.

We become like the people we surround ourselves with, for better or worse. Incidentally yet another great reason to stay off of Twitter.

So what happens when a couple of codependent insecure people become close and start to negatively influence each other?

Disaster can follow. There is no telling what a combination like this can produce.

Bordman, Ohio is a suburb of youngstown with not much to do besides shop. Bordman is one of those retail hubs in Mahoning County, which means there are a lot of stores to choose from if you've got some money bringing a hole in your pocket.

Teenagers whose families don't fall within the upper level income range usually don't have the kind of money that allows them to spend all of their free time shopping.

So many find themselves getting involved with drugs, alcohol and sex. For Brandy Rosy, a high school student attending Bordman high school, this was not the case because she was diabetic.

She couldn't experiment without alcohol even if she wanted to. Brandy instead chose to spend her time immersed in music, both in school and in an extracurricular capacity.

Even though Brandy was a bright, happy girl with a large group of friends, she struggled with her identity through high school, relying on her friend and neighbor, Christy Horvat, her advice and support.

She's six years younger than me, so she was closer to my younger sister, but she also lived behind me. She was a neighbor, a slough friend.

I met Brandy when I was about 17. She was around 12. She would come over my house because she was good friends with my younger sister.

And they both played instruments. Brandy would bring her electric bass and my sister Jenna would play guitar and they'd go in the basement and jam out.

When Brandy was in high school, she was involved in a lot of extracurricular activities such as the Teen Advisory Board at the library. They had a pretty solid program with Bournemont High School.

She was in orchestra. She played the upright bass. She also played Dungeons and Dragons with her friends and we created a few bands with other friends too.

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