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T.O.R.I Promo - The Potter’s House of Dallas (64k) · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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  Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Deja.
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  Speaker 2: I'm nine years old.
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  Speaker 1: Because of my mom's earth habit, I spend most of
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  Speaker 1: my time in foster care.
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  Speaker 3: Deja doesn't realize that people have a tendency to be
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  Speaker 3: a product of their environment. That the things said, felt,
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  Speaker 3: and experienced around them shape their future and disturb their destiny.
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  Speaker 4: My childhood was not a regular childhood with a mother
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  Speaker 4: and a father in the house.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up without my parents.
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  Speaker 1: Five years from now, I'm going to leave for my
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  Speaker 1: foster home for the first time. And two years later,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to.
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  Speaker 2: Run away again.
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  Speaker 3: By now, Deja's decisions are driven by her desire for love.
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  Speaker 3: The people that are around her are destined to fail her.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, they lead to her destruction and her utter,
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  Speaker 3: utter disappointment.
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  Speaker 4: When I was 14, that was the last time I
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  Speaker 4: actually seen my mother alive.
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  Speaker 2: And the last thing.
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  Speaker 4: That she told me was that she loved drugs more
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  Speaker 4: than she loved me.
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  Speaker 2: That always stuck with me, and that made me.
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  Speaker 4: Say, well, if you don't love me, somebody out there
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  Speaker 4: is going to love me. Just because it's not you,
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  Speaker 4: that doesn't mean that I'm not going to find somebody
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  Speaker 4: to love me.
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  Speaker 1: Two years later, at the age of 18, I'll meet
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  Speaker 1: a man named Eric who abused me and introduced me
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  Speaker 1: to my other love, drugs.
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  Speaker 3: If nothing changes, this would be all of Deja's life.
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  Speaker 3: A never-ending cycle of bad decisions that continue to perpetuate
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  Speaker 3: themselves for the rest of her life.
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  Speaker 4: I ended up finding my kid's father. I was 18
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  Speaker 4: when I got with him. And he introduced me to
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  Speaker 4: how to sell drugs, and so that's how my pathway
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  Speaker 4: to selling drugs began.
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  Speaker 1: When I'm five months pregnant with my fourth child, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be arrested for selling cocaine.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the first time I got in trouble was for stealing.
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  Speaker 4: Then I got caught for this charge for trafficking cocaine.
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  Speaker 4: And that's when I came to the realization of, I
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  Speaker 4: don't want this life.
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  Speaker 2: This is not what I want.
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  Speaker 1: Even though I do all those things.
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  Speaker 2: I've learned I don't have to be defined by them.
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  Speaker 3: With the Texas Offenders Reentry Initiative, she can go from
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  Speaker 3: a pathology of bad choices and decisions to a positive
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  Speaker 3: outcome and end. She may have done what they say
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  Speaker 3: she did, but she is not who they say she was.
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  Speaker 4: When I first moved down here, I didn't know about
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  Speaker 4: the Torrey program. I was basically trying to do things
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  Speaker 4: on my own. But then I found Torrey. And when
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  Speaker 4: I found Torrey, I found hope. You have to come
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  Speaker 4: to Torrey with the mind of you want to change.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a totally different person who I am today.