...Life in The Downtown Eastside.
I'm attaching the text of an email Sue and I received last night from a friend of ours who works in the DTES. Even though its a request for help and included a photo, I'm going to remove the identifiers; you can still pray for her and her family. This email is very sad, but not unusual.
This is life for a lot of people.
Hi Everybody:
A friend of mine went to work on Saturday and never came home. Her name is "X". She is someone who has a history of drug addiction and used to have 3 years clean. She this summer though did get loaded for a while and had gotten clean yet again. Her family would like to get any information if possible. They don't even know where to start looking. They filed a missing persons report today. They are distraught. She has 5 kids that miss her as well and need her well. The family is concerned that she might actually have been taken by her previous husband who was connected to the Hells Angels. Or if she did some bad drugs and died. She left without taking any clothes and so would be in her work clothes which is very unlike her. None the less they are worried and would like to receive any tips from sightings. So I am sending this picture out to anyone I have an email for that lives in the Vancouver area. If you do see her could you let us know where you saw her and what the people looked like that she might be with. If you do talk to her please tell her to call "Y" so he knows she is still alive. Or she can leave a note at Harbourlight for any of her friends from Homestead. I thank you for you help. And please keep her and her family in your prayers.
Damn, but there are far too many of these stories...
UPDATE: The Missing Friend is now home, and must start the climb out of addiction over again. It seems to me that this is a microcosm of what life is like for so many of the "overlooked and ignored." And just in case this world is foreign to you, or you missed it, this is a very good outcome when one considers the possibilities. This is an outcome that the Missing Friend and her friends and family can work with.
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