I never saw it coming. Looking back now there were warning signs but I thought I had raised her better than that

“I never saw it coming. Looking back now there were warning signs but I thought I had raised her better than that. I made excuses for her behavior, the police, school officials, friends and family all tried to tell me but I couldn’t and didn’t want to believe that she was a drug addict at 14. The days and nights of not leaving the room without my phone just in case someone had found her body. I felt so alone and so incredibly scared that one point I wanted my life to end because I could not endure the pain anymore. I reached out to a stranger on Facebook, Kevin. Kevin called me immediately and got the ball rolling, he showed me the road to travel. After quite a few rehab stays and relapses later, I got a call one day from my daughter. My real daughter. I was cautious yet optimistic. At the end of October she will have 3 years of sobriety. I took a vacation this year and spent the day at the pool, without my phone. My daughter hugs me, tells me she loves me and that she would not have survived without me being by her side. I would have not survived had Kevin not called me that day. At 22 years old she is finally living and so am I.”