A woman who survived sex work and foster care trauma searches for her father using DNA testing. She was told he was dead her whole life. Finding him and the truth behind that lie is central to her healing.
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I've been doing sex work for 10 years. When I was freshly 18 years old, I was approached by a pimp and he asked me if I wanted to make some money. And that's the day I started doing sex work. It was the only way I could make money to support myself. I felt alone during that time. I felt like I didn't have anyone to really fall back on. I just felt like I didn't care in the moment and I was just trying to survive. And now I'm trying to change my life. And part of that change I'm making is trying to find my father. I grew up with a family with drug addicts, and I was taken away at a young age, and I grew up in the foster care system. Growing up in foster care, I was sexually assaulted multiple times. Sometimes people didn't believe me. They put me in worse positions. My entire life, I was told that my father was dead. And this test means More to me than anything right now in my journey of healing. It's important to me right now more than ever.