Soon hardships like alcoholism, divorce, abuse, drugs etc disrupted their happy life and Hope and her Mom Linda went from living in a nice house to a life in poverty.
Trauma has made Hope forget lots of bad things but the most important thing and only thing that matters is that she became her Mom's girl - they were best friends - always together. Linda was a sweet soul and
always supportive of Hope. They lived paycheck to paycheck. Hope is very thankful to a lot of people during that time that helped them along the way.
Hope started working in high school - she loved fashion and worked at Rue 21 all night after school and was taking care of her family at age 16.
Hope found her real Dad and she looks just like him, but he is very selfish and she has no desire to have a relationship with him.
Hope credits her sweet Mom Linda with everything because she is the one who raised her. Hope makes no excuses - she has had a very hard life, nothing was ever given to her - she has had to get everything on her own.
She is so happy and positive always and never dwells on anything negative. Hope always knew that she wanted a big life and she got out of that small city and she will never go back to that life.
She is the most humble and down to Earth - she appreciates everything and loves to take care of people.
Hope always had big dreams and she made them happen with hard work. She met her husband in 2012 and they make an amazing team.
Hope takes us through the time that she was in college and her Mom struggled without Hope by her side. She got on drugs and developed lots of health problems - she had to have open heart surgery at 40 years old after
several heart attacks.
After that surgery Linda battled a pill addiction because of her addictive personality.
Tragically and suddenly Linda passed away from a heart attack at age 50 on Halloween, right after Hope was dancing to a Bee Gees song that her and her Mom would always dance to.
The system fails you - they found over 50 different pill bottles in Linda's room - that is why Hope is very against prescription drugs. We have a conversation about the pharmaceutical companies.
Even though heartbroken over her Mom's sudden passing Hope is happy that she is out of the world that caused her so much pain and suffering. Hope had a meeting with a medium and is certain that her Mom
reached out to her and it has brought her some real comfort and "GRACE".
The night Linda passed away was the first time Hope met Marcella.
We can all see Linda, her loveable, sweet soul and always positive demeanor through Hope.
Hope has a gift to bringing girls together that all form a strong friendship.
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