This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is our American stories, and you're about to hear an incredible story of hope and redemption.

Here's Madison to bring you the story.

You might think that it would be crazy that an intelligent, beautiful, and driven girl

would enter the sex industry. It might make a little more sense if we heard a bit about her childhood.

I was raised in a pretty violent neighborhood in a really chaotic home. In the neighborhood I grew up in,

Dominoes wouldn't deliver a pizza after dark, and the police actually wouldn't even come to my house after dark.

My mother and my stepdad had a very tumultuous relationship, so there was a lot of screaming

and fighting and yelling. I also was sexually abused throughout my life by multiple people,

both men and women, and raped. I wrote my first suicide note when I was eight

years old. One of my first attempts was around 12, and I figured it was just a matter of like

finding the right method. One of my abusers was my mother's boyfriend and at that time I was 13 and I finally started

standing up for myself a little bit more and getting a little feisty and hormonal as teenagers

do.

And so I actually ran away from home to get away from the situation and my mom called me and said,

Okay Harmony, you can come home.

It'll be fine.

He's gone. He left. And I came home,

and she actually followed him to Canada and left my brother and I with $20 and a book of food stamps.

And the food stamps and the $20 ran out very quickly, and I remember I would buy tortillas and butter

because it was the cheapest thing that I could get in my neighborhood.

But once the money was gone, I started stealing from the liquor store to support my brother

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