Gracie then asks if they could keep them, to which her mother agrees. They show them to their mother who finds them adorable as well. Gracie names hers "Shadow" while Rose names hers "Snowball". While her brothers play on the playground, Gracie and her sister find and take in two stray cats. Although Rowena has had a horrible reputation with her mother, Lou decides to help her and her family find a place to live.Ī few days later, Gracie and her family find an apartment with the help of their grandmother. They arrive at their grandmother, Lou,'s house, where they happily embrace her.
When morning arrives, Gracie and her family quickly pack everything up, start the car, and drive as fast as they can from the hotel in order to avoid paying their debt. Gracie then gets to enjoy some quality time at the pool with her siblings and soaks her feet in the water. Later that day, Gracie and her mother convince a hotel manager to let them stay for the night and that their grandmother will bring the money for him first thing in the morning.
The family gets inside their car, but are forced to leave their dog behind as they evacuate. The police tell her to take her kids as far away from the area as possible. Though they suspect their mother of being involved in the ring, she manages to convince them that the others just let her family sleep there. After breaking through the door, they find Gracie and her younger siblings tightly packed in one of the rooms. As dawn approaches, the police arrive to bring the addicts into custody. Aside from being forced to switch schools constantly, Gracie and her siblings endured both physical and emotional abuse, as well as neglect, from not only their mother, but her partners as well.Īt the age of 16, Gracie, her siblings, and their dog sleep over at one of their mother's drug rings. Gracie's childhood was filled with complication. With these new partners, Rowena had four more children, Rose, Ryan, Jonathan, and Robert. During her early years, her mother filed a restraining order against her father and moved on to other relationships. Gracie was born as the first of five children to Rowena Larson, a drug-addict, and a man with the surname Thompson.
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