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Little Sister Charly
By Matt Stevens
Would you let your little sister live with you that had a heroin addiction and criminal past, or would you let her be homeless and on her last leg of hope?
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The story is about my younger sister and allowing her to live with me while I try and rehabilitate her from a heroin addiction and over two decades of drug abuse. The readers must ask themselves if they would assist a family member knowing they were an addict and criminal with outstanding warrants, or would they turn their back without a guilty conscious in having a sibling be homeless? The book describes how a young person can take a wrong path and never recover even though loved ones are constantly throwing life preservers in their direction. It illustrates that changing a person must come from within regardless of any positive intervention. The story begins with my sister virtually on her last leg; in-and-out of jail, sleeping in a boat in a random person’s backyard, warrants for her arrest and having to glue in her teeth. Having incinerated every family bridge, I’m the last person she can turn to for help. At this point the story goes back-and-forth from taking my sister into my home and how her life of drugs began as a teenager. Both narratives paint a sobering reality of the life of an addict and the challenges faced within family. In the end the stories collide back into the present amid chaos, but then a surprise gesture of love.
