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No matter what you’ve been through, you can still come out on top.

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No matter what you’ve been through, you can still come out on top.

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"Everything had turned around for me, but I wanted more. I needed a better job to make sure my kids would have the future I wanted for them. I certainly couldn't expect any financial help from Frank. I also wanted to give myself something I had always dreamed of: a career." "I had survived so much, put up with so many negative things, I was willing to walk through hell now to make life better for myself and. more important, my kids. I wanted to show them that they could attain any goal they wanted, and the best way was to present myself as a model." She acknowledges that even though all the bad things she's been through such as Frank and the gang life she's been in, despite all that she still wants to be a police officer and she's going to be one to protect her kids so they can have a better life than she had.

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“I relished the time spent with my kids after work each night, and I was feeling a lot better about our lives. I began trying to save money for my own place and to prepare for my new life. Three mouths would be a lot to feed, I knew, and I kept looking for a better-paying job.” "I took a drastic step to, hopefully, provide my eldest son with some sort of compass that might help him sort out the direction of his life." Mona always wants to protect her family, especially her children and wants the best for them and go to many lengths to keep them safe and on the right track so they won't do the same mistakes as she did when she was young as she takes Frank Jr. to Military school to give him a sense of honor and morality.

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No matter what, don’t join gangs because it will lead to more death and hurt

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No matter what, don’t join gangs because it will lead to more death and hurt

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“I still loved hanging out with my friends and I enjoyed the parties, but I could see the mindlessness of the fights, the shootings, and drugs.” "I hated that they partied after outside, cracking open tall boys, and recounting war stories about the dead vato. I thought it was disrespectful, and I told them so, but they always said they were toasting their late friend, that he would have wanted it that way." Even though Mona still wants to be in F-Troop, she doesn't like how uncaring gang reacts to death and how much of it there is, it desensitized them to it. So it show's that Mona did not know what she getting into when she decided to join them.

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Don’t judge people by their appearance, where they came from, and/or past 

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Don’t judge people by their appearance, where they came from, and/or past 

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“I had been on duty less than a month when I found out that I had inspired a variety of colorful rumors. An old favorite had resurfaced, one I had heard while I was a clerk: I was a spy for the Santa Ana street gangs.”  "First of all, I don't think women belong out here," The Commander said as he locked his seat belt. "That's nothing against you, now. That's just how I feel." The police department did not respect Mona as a police officer and didn't think she would be a good police officer because of her being in a gang in the past and her relationships with the gang, but she was still able to become a great officer, despite of what her co-workers said.

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Be cautious with the people you meet because you don't know how they really act.

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Be cautious with the people you meet because you don't know how they really act.

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"Frank betrayed me when he hit me, and that couldn't be taken back. He won't do it again, the voice in my head promised me in reasoning tones, but you can never, ever, trust him again." "I found myself falling for him, despite my friends' warnings that he was a playboy and a two-timing smooth talker." Mona thought that Frank was a good partner but even when she found out about his past from her friends, she still fell in love with him and after being with Frank for a while, she saw what he was like and was the cause of her trusting a person like him. As the picture implies, she did not "verify" what Frank is like before trusting him.