...  with drugs. Her father had been a drug user in his youth but had managed to break free. He and her mother warned her repeatedly what she was doing, the dangers she was facing. They went in debt to send her to rehab. They flushed every drug they could find. Eventually they used up all of their money on paying fees and bonds when she could not hold down jobs. Finally they realized that she would never be willing to recover until she hit bottom. She flunked out of school. She never finished high school. She began to finance her habit by stealing her folk’s car and driving to Chicago on drug runs. She used her beauty to get boyfriends to support her – often very abusive boyfriends. She stole from everyone. When she was coming for a visit we learned to hide all of our valuables. She lied and manipulated and used people. When she went through rehab, for a few months we’d have the old Brandy – the girl who wanted to be a nurse, who loved butterflies and ...