Homeless Addicts

I know a homeless person who was nothing but a young innocent, trusting, carefree child when her parents divorced. Her Mom, uneducated and unskilled, chose not to take her onto Welfare row but gave up custody of her to her very well off father, who months later remarried a woman who would not stand to have the young girl in "her" household. She forced the girl from her own bedroom to the basement instilling her own child in the girl's bedroom. Forced the girl to eat meals away from her father and did everything she could to prevent any father/daughter relationship for fear of that relationship would become more important then her own marriage. The woman even accused the girl of using her diabetic condition to obtain sympathy and love from her own father.

Eventually the girl turned to the outside world for acceptance. Unfortunately, drugs were there and offered temporary release from her prison until she could no longer live with her stepmother and father. The drugs consumed her and her behavior to the point that even that girl's natural mother could not feel safe enough to shelter her. She is now a woman and my guess is that she has done a lot of things out of necessity for survival that G.R. obviously has not had to do and thankfully most of us haven't. If she has a dog, it is probably for protection and because it is the only way she will EVER experience true acceptance. I read somewhere that maybe the downtrodden are really angels in disguise testing mankind's kindness.

D.N.