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Mona experienced many of her friends and family using drugs growing up and even her husband when she was in a relationship. She got traumatized because her friends would act psycho and also led to one friend not remembering who Mona was.  Quote: “One of the troops once told me heroin was a taste of the float and freedom of death,and when the taste became more enticing than life, you were gone.”

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Since Mona was a little girl,and growing up with her cousins being in gangs she had seen people get shot but it traumatized her most seeing it when she was in the PD. Quote: “ Oso’s eyes opened and he was trying to speak then, but only gurgling noises escaped his

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Mona changed her perspective on life and that's when she decided to get her life together from being in a gang to being in the PD. Quote: “I learned that people can be judged from where they from, what they look like or the uniform they wear, whether it's police blue or gangerbanger baggy.”

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Mona was abused by her husband. One of the first times she was hit was when she was slapped by her husband frank at the get together with Frank's friends. He slapped her because she was yelling back at him and his friends were watching.   Quote: “He hit me.I can't believe it. He really had hit me. He had shaken and lighty shoved me before,but never thought he would strike me.”

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when first joining the gang life, mona had  thought it was cool however as becoming older she started to regret everything and dwell on her  mistakes. She started to regret becoming a gang member when she saw some of her friends lose their lives and become highly addicted to drugs.  Quote: “I had a lot of confused feelings and I wanted someone to help me sort through them”