Thelma Grier

My Own Enemy 1 Thelma Grier

It is only by the grace of God that I lived to tell this story... Growing up in a big city on the south side of Chicago, my future looked bright and promising. As a small child I was often rewarded by my father and the school I attended, making exceptional grades, winner of Spelling B's and poetry contests. Forced to relocate to a small town in Georgia named La Grange after being molested, exposed to drugs and alcohol and became a pregnant teen, still against all odds successfully graduated High School and a small Business College. Attempting time and time again to stay clean, attending numerous drug treatment centers almost always never completing them. Faced life with addiction, admitted 3 times to mental hospitals for evaluation of mental state, once after the death of a child. Involved in abusive relationships, raped, lost custody of children, an unintentional life of crime including prostitution and armed robbery. Incarcerations often interrupted my life only to return to the streets of insanity. In 2008 received a certification for Computer Business and Customer Service Technology and author of this book, still a work in progress!