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Because Of You
“Life, Fate, and Destiny call all of us to a path they planned for us.”
Inspired by: Ubuntu: I am because you are. James G Brennan
Maria Townsend met Rocker and Musician Steven Kildare, lead singer of the Kildare Brothers Rock Group, when she was 17 years old. To punish her mother for not allowing her to sleep over at her best friend’s house, she sneaked out to his concert one night.
For the next six years, her life was rocking and rolling with drugs, sex; two abortions; two suicide attempts; four shoplifting charges, and three more for soliciting prostitution. Several community services later, and the judge threatening jail time, she overdoses on sleeping pills.
Opening her eyes, glancing around at white walls and ceiling, she noticed wires and tubes running in and out of her. Her head wrapped in bandages and was splitting into pieces, and no life in one of her feet. She wonders, “why does God keep bringing me back here?”
A year of endless pain, therapy, counseling, struggling to remember a past that will catch up with her, plus learning to walk and talk again, gave her a reason to want to go on a path with less pain. Along with her family’s help, she recovers in three years.
At her last therapy session, she told her therapist, “I must not forget the pain of my past; I will forget…
