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Age: 24
Gender: female
Location: Georgia

Well I've been clean for 20 months now. I had never known what meth was until one night a friend of my brother's was smoking something in his room and I asked him what he was doing and he asked me if I wanted some and I said sure. After that night I was addicted, I used to steal money from my job, I sold stolen clothes, I even met these dealers who asked me if I wanted to start selling and I said sure cuz I knew a lot of people who smoked it. Sometimes I fronted people and they would never pay me back and my dealers would tell me that I needed to get the money or I would get hurt, so I had to steal money just to pay them off. I remember this one time a friend of mine who was also selling had $6000 worth of it stolen from her, cuz she was so high that the dealers shot up her house. My friend that introduced me to meth lost his older brother to it. His brother got shot over 50 dollars. The guys that he was buying it from didn't want to give him back his money when they wouldn't sell it to him and shot him when he asked for his money back. He died in his other little brother's arms. His other little brother was only 12. You think that would have made me stop, but it didn't. It kept smoking and selling until I met my boyfriend who I'm with now, I mean we both used to smoke together all the time but it was him who really wanted to quit, so finally in February of 2008 I found out I was pregnant and when I found out I stopped smoking the day I found out and I have never smoked again. I had my little girl in October last year and when she was born I cried so hard because I knew she was my only reason to stop smoking and now my boyfriend and I call her our little �lifesaver�. Without her I know I would have never stopped and I would've have been dead. To this day, I still feel the effects of it, I can't think clearly sometimes and I'm always forgetting what I'm gonna say sometimes. I know that because of my boyfriend who loves me so much and our beautiful daughter that we will never bother with that stuff again! So please to everyone out there: don't do meth ever.

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