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Mary McLeod

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Mary McLeod

I never knew my mom. She couldn't really provide for me… she lost oxygen to her brain and she just never was, you know, right? Like, the mom she needed to be with us… So I just started having to take care of myself and that's what really brought me to prostitution and drugs. And that got me incarcerated. That's what really did it is because I had to grow up too fast.


Listen above to Mary McLeod’s story as interpreted into a new piece of music by Lynn Drury.