I keep going back but she stopped!

When I first ran away I was only 13 (now I'm 16). I first ran away because of peer pressure but then after I turned 14 & got into drugs and became Gothic, then I started running away to be with my boyfriend who was 18 at the time.

Then I left him to be with his cousin. He got his best friend after me, then his best friend tried to rape me. Then I started running away again but this time it was really bad. Then my boyfriend Karl hit me. When I was 14 also I got locked up in Wind Gap then got out in November.

On April first 2003 I went to TCDC (Tioga county Detention Center) Then was sent to a maximum security facility which is where I'm at now.

Every time I ran away from home I always hurt my family. I set bad examples for my sister and brother. Now my sister is mouthy.

I just found out last month that my best friend just got out of First Hospital. She was there because she was extremely depressed and on top of that she was smoking pot, snorting pill's, and drinking. Then she started running from home more and cutting herself so her ma took her to CMC and they sent her to First Hospital. Now she has been clean for 3 months.

See when I was out there she and I would run every other day. We both did the same drugs, the only difference was I never snorted the pills. I always took them by mouth. Thank you for listening to our story, and please never run, It's not worth it.

 

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