**Spoilers**
'A Piece of Cake' by Cupcake Brown is a tumultuous story of a young girl experiencing first hand the death of her mother, to be torn away from her loving family and thrown into the foster care system. From here she was physically and sexually abused, using alcohol and drugs as a means of escape and 'turning tricks' for money. Upon leaving foster care, she becomes exposed to the life of dangerous gangs and harder drugs. Her life seems to just go downhill from there, however still maintaining a job, she convinces herself that she's not an addict, but just needs to learn how to control her using. After hitting rock bottom, finding herself raped and beaten behind a dumpster, she stays there for four days thinking about suicide until the little voice in her head tells her she needs to sort herself out.
She checks herself into rehab with support from her boss and slowly starts building up her life and trusting God, she begins experiencing things in a new light as a sober woman, surrounding herself with sober and loving people, everything is turning around for her, even starting her education with the goal of entering law school. she finally gets the love, support and life that she deserves.
On finishing this memoir I was in floods of tears. This book will stay with me forever, such a strong heartfelt story which will no doubt touch other lives and help others struggling with drug and alcohol addiction, and for others, it will make them realise how lucky they are and to be grateful for what they have!! A higher power was definitely watching over and protecting this young woman. I'm so glad I read this book, and highly recommend it to everyone!
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