Girl from Tompkins Projects

This story is about the life of a girl who grew up in the Tompkins projects in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She enjoyed life with her family, joining her family for holiday fun, going on picnics, and enjoying the summer fun. Her teenage years were moving fast. She gets married to her childhood sweetheart, Leonard Brown, and life quickly changes from fun to the life of drugs and trying to hide their secret drug life. Drugs and death prove to be too much, but how did she survive?