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After addiction to crack, my family was restored.

Thomas

He said, "We can make a hundred thousand a year." I said, “Well, Let’s go!” The first year we made some good money; about sixty or seventy-thousand dollars. In two years of working with him I didn't know that he was using pow...

Screamed at my abusive stepfather's grave.

Lori

From the very beginning my real dad told me he loved me, but left. He may have loved me, but I don’t know. Then a step dad came in, and said he loved me and my mom, but would also tell me to not tell. It started with fondling...

Social services removed me from our home.

Kayla

My brothers and I were separated. When we came back together in our parents home it wasn’t any better. There was still a lot of abuse going on, so I moved back out the spring semester my senior year.

Healed from the secret life that started at age 13 .

Jennifer

"I would take off and stay gone for days."

This mean and angry atheist switched sides.

Jamie

"I thought Jesus was the king of the cartoon network."

I’m living proof that a gay man can become a family man.

Chris D

Every relationship, every encounter, would get worse, would become more perverted, more faceless, more emotionless. I had been with countless men. I could fill up a notebook full of the men that I had been with.

Mother of five. Meth cook.

Kimberly P.

All of my life my family has been drug addicts, prostitutes, and different things. I didn't grow up in a very good household.

Early abuse caused later fear and anger.

Jeanne

I was the sixth of seven children. I was molested from the time I was two or three years old until I was six or seven.

A man with eight kids wept when I asked him to adopt me.

Joe M.

“My whole entire life I was looking for someone to teach me how to be a man."

Chose life for the baby from my foster father.

Rose and Chris

When I was twelve the Lord woke me up one night and instructed me to pray for my future wife whom I had never met.