Skidrow
On top of everything else, it didn’t help that her family was living in a rather unsafe area of Kansas City, Missouri. But unfortunately, that was all that their mother could afford at the time… Their living situation was just another thing that was working against them in their lives. And most of the time the kids would be alone in this sketchy neighborhood without anything to do.
No parent wants to put their child in harm’s way, but some people don’t always have a choice. Their neighborhood was no stranger to violence and substance abuse… And whilst some people would prefer to do these things in the privacy of their own homes, it was commonplace for these things to happen in the streets of their neighborhood.