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By Steph Golden
06/11/09
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"Jenna, get in here!" Karen yelled. She sat down dreading the confrontation that would come next. Karen said a quick prayer for guidance. She heard Jenna enter the room and looked up. Where once her daughter had been now a hateful stranger stood. Jennas eyes were bloodshot and her pupils were dialated. Great, the most important conversation of her daughters life and she wasn't even sober.
"What do you want? I'm tired." Jenna said slurring her words.
"Your tired, I've been up half the night worrying about you.Where have you been?" Karen said wearily.
"Out, I don't ask you were you are every minute."Jenna said. "I ask because I love you. Sit down we need to talk." Karen said from her chair
"What if I don't want to talk." Jenna said. "I'm not giving you a choice, sit down." Karen said sternly. Jenna sighed and sat . "I've tried Jenna for two years and I'm tired of it. I'm tired of worrying and I'm tired of waiting for that phone call from the police saying they've found your body in some alley. When I first caught you, you said that it was because dad's death was so hard on you that you were just trying to numb the pain. Now your stealing money from me to feed your habit and I can't put up with this anymore." Karen said crying.
"If you kick me out of my house then I guess you really will get a phone call form the police about me. If dad was still alive he would have loved me know matter what, It's my life and I'm tired of you judging me because I don't live it the way you want me to. I thought Christians weren't supposed to judge others." Jenna said. "Don't even start with that Jenna, you used to know what being a Christian really meant. Also, if your father was still alive it wouldn't have taken us two years to address this, this talk would have been a lot sooner you know how your dad felt about addicts." Karen said watching for any softening in her daughters face, Karen was about to give up hope when a single tear ran down her daughters cheek. "I'm giving you one last chance Jenna, but you can't get sober alone. I made reservations for you at a rehab clinic nearby. It's a sixty day program the car will be here at three o'clock today so you need to pack. If you do not get into that car, I won't enable you any longer. You need to decide right now what your gonna do." Karen said sliding the brochure in front of where Jenna was sitting. "So if I don't do this your just gonna give up one me?" Jenna said "I will never give up on you. If you choose not to go I will beg God to help you turn your life around and I will be waiting with open arms for when you finally get things right with God." Karen said. "I don't know if I even know how to go back to being the person I once was." Jenna admitted quietly. "You will never be the person you once were. All you can do is try. Just take it one day at a time and if that's to hard take it one minute or one second. But, you can only make this work with God's help." Karen said. Jenna looked down at the floor and then looked up and in that moment Karen saw the young girl Jenna had once been. "I'll pack my bags and I'll be ready by three," said Jenna quietly. The tears cascaded down Karens cheek unashamedly, wiping away her tears she noticed the coffee cup sitting in front of her untouched, odd know that as she looked where once it had seemed almost empty now it appeared as she saw her daughter half-full.

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