... I was shocked by how much adversity and affliction she had to bear by slipping deeper and deeper into the vicious circle of drugs, prostitution and crime. Rosa Lee`s parents were black rural share croppers from the South who moved to Washington D.C. in order to escape racial oppression, economic exploitation and segregation and to find ... in drug trafficking before she even considered taking drugs. She worked at a table dance bar and would sell drugs to some of her costumers in order to earn extra money. Later on she sold cocain and heroin in the street. One time she even used her five ...

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