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HAVE BROUGHT ME BACK TO LIFE  Emma came to us with a drug problem. We gave her a foundation for building a new life. |
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Basically the Reconcile Project has saved my life because if I hadn't have come here I would be dead now. If I was alive I wouldn't have my job, my family. I found out about the Reconcile Project through my sister. She goes to Thornleigh College and Father Jim had come in to talk about drugs so she got the number from him and I rung up. I was born in Bolton.I have always lived there. My life was O.K.until I left school.Then when I was seventeen I met somebody who was taking drugs and that's how I got into it.He was taking drugs and he offered them to me. For a bit I said no, I did not want them.Then one day I said I'll have one just to shut you up and that was it.I just got addicted from there on.Slowly my life just went downhill. I never had any money, I was always in trouble, I was never in work,never in college or I was late. I then started stealing off my mum and dad and selling things. The final straw was when I got arrested by the police. I was involved in a street theft and criminal damage. Somebody who I was giving a lift to said just wait here a minute and he come back with somebody's handbag.I was driving the car and there was two cars following us.He made me pull up and he smashed the window on one of these cars to stop them following us.Then went to his house and he said "you will have to pretend that your car has been stolen".Then the police turned up on my doorstep the day after to arrest me for my involvement in the criminal damage and street theft. I told them everything when I got there and I got a caution. I come from a good family. My mum and dad have always worked.It can just happen to anybody. My mum and dad have never done anything wrong. I have always said to them it has not been your fault. It was just something that happened.I went down the wrong path.At school I never did anything wrong,I was never in trouble. I got my homework in on time and passed my exams.I was just dead good at school and everything went downhill from there. I just got in with the wrong crowd,the wrong type of people and they were all doing drugs.Now I want a proper life. I just want to be normal and have a job, have a house and go on holiday. I just want to do normal things. When I first came I didn't know what to expect.It was hard,it was really hard.Everybody was really friendly and I seemed to get on well with everybody. It has turned me into a different person. I have left a different person and I can't believe the changes.All the things I have learnt I will probably never learn as much in my entire life than I have in my two months here. I have made a lot of friends as well |
