This story has everything. There is physical and sexual abuse, drug addiction, adoption, a criminal enterprise, and incarceration. More importantly, there is joy, hope, sobriety, how I regained custody of my children, fell in love with myself and my soulmate. This is the story of how one woman hung on when the entire world told her to give up and came back from a suicide attempt to the happiness she never dreamed of. This is the story of how one woman lived knowing that her story was meant to encourage other women.