The mom she likes to remember — before crack and prostitution took its toll.
“I didn’t know it had gotten to that point,” says her 34-year-old daughter, her tears pouring across the long distance line. “Maybe there is a chance to help her one last time.”
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Their happy reunion, though, was short-lived. When Gale’s boyfriend left her for her best friend, her daughter says she fell apart and sank back into a cesspool of crack and prostitution.
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One of the last times she saw her, Gale had been arrested again for prostitution and Poole was pregnant with her second child and caring for her younger half-brother and sister. It was in the jail visiting room that she finally knew that to survive, she could no longer afford to expend any more of her energy on trying to save an addict who didn’t want to be saved.
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