5 – Portal History – Making my own Way

5. Making My Own Way So I earned an extra 800 Rand a month. That was for taking care of a five year old son and waitressing. I had a 24/7 job. In the mornings I would wake up and dress her son. I’d take him to school, and I waitressed. Until about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, I’d go fetch her son at school, do his homework with him until it was “bath time.” You know, bathe him, give him dinner, to him to sleep and then that was the only time I had for me, then. On Saturday’s and Sunday’s I would have to keep him busy with what was necessary. So, at 18 years old, I was basically a mother. You know, that whole application, what women experienced with their children of literally having to have 24/7 – a day, I’ve had that experience. So it was quite extensive. And during that time, I was introduced to drugs, and alcohol and partying, and it was just wild. Sometimes we’d go out, say up to about five in the morning, get home, get dressed, go to work, and my whole day would again. It was the first time I was introduced to drugs, ecstacy, which I used about twice, while I was with Lynette and the people I was “friends” with. So then, one day (now this was in 2004), Eagle and his fiance came into the coffee shop. And they started eating there. (More background: In my school years, I was a Christian. Extensive Christian, you know. But not the whole belief in it. You know, reading your Bible and going to church and Sunday School and all those things, I did. But in terms of heart-felt …
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