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ily. There were times she was on the ground suffering from what felt like y the time most an overdose and people teenagers were would step over her body hitting the books like she didn’t exist, she in college, a drugsaid, eyes flashing. addicted Jo-Anne was “I was a nobody. A drug selling sex on Nanaimo’s addict,” Jo-Anne said. “I downtown felt like no one streets. cared.” “I had an aweIt wasn’t until some upbringher now husing. No one band stopped beat me up. and told her My parents she had the didn’t drink. to be i felt like no potential We were the something else Brady Bunch,” one cared. that she found she said. “I just the courage to started partying with my get treatment. He was a friends and dabbling with stranger. cocaine and booze ... He wasn’t a john and pretty soon I couldn’t get didn’t “know me from a up in the morning withhole in the wall,” but he out it.” cared and believed in her, Jo-Anne turned to crack she said. It was all she and speed when cocaine needed. no longer gave her a At 34 years old and six good high. She lost cusyears sober, the Nanaimo tody of her children and health-care worker and by 19, was living on the mother is returning to streets and selling sex to the streets – this time to feed her habit. show sex trade workers She felt invisible to they matter to the comanyone other than the munity. She hopes she prostitutes and homeless can help change lives. that had become her famu See ‘PROGRAM’ /7 By Tamara CuNNiNgham ThE NEwS BULLETiN
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