{"id":41412,"date":"2016-03-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=41412"},"modified":"2017-12-22T18:26:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T02:26:49","slug":"help-im-trapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/help-im-trapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Help! I’m Trapped!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is the fourth letter in the series, \u201cLetters To Dad<\/a>.\u201d They are written by Sam Riviera, and are based on the true stories of people he actually knows in real life.<\/p>\n

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\"trapped<\/p>\n

Dad,<\/p>\n

I\u2019m stupid. I was so wrong. I thought you and your rules were stupid. That\u2019s why I ran away. I thought I had everything all figured out and you were treating me like a baby with your rules. \u201cCome straight home after school. We need to know where you are at all times. Don\u2019t try any drugs even if the kids at school give them to you. That stuff will ruin your life. You can\u2019t go to parties unless we know where you are and the parents are there. No parties with drugs or booze.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first few nights I stayed at a friend\u2019s house. Her parents didn\u2019t know I was there. She snuck me into her bedroom through the window and I left the same way the next morning. She said we couldn\u2019t keep doing that.<\/p>\n

I was hanging with some kids I didn\u2019t know near a liquor store. This guy a little older than me bought me some snacks, then he took me to a movie. After the movie he asked where he could drop me off. I told him I didn\u2019t care. He asked if I needed a place to stay and said I could stay at his sister\u2019s.<\/p>\n

She was real nice to me for a couple of days. Then she told me she couldn\u2019t afford to let me live there forever. She said her friend could help me earn my way.<\/p>\n

Her friend says he owns me. He says he owns all of the girls in our house. I don\u2019t know exactly where the house is, but I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s somewhere in San Diego. When we leave, he puts us in the back of a van. We can\u2019t see out. He drops us off and then picks us up later in the van and takes us back to the house.<\/p>\n

When we get back to the house, he locks up our clothes so we won\u2019t try to run away. Not that we have many clothes anyway. Only our working clothes.<\/p>\n

This is going to make you so mad, but he\u2019s got us hooked on this stuff. Honest. I didn\u2019t know what it was. He said it would relax me. Now I really need it and he\u2019s my only way to get it.<\/p>\n

\"trapped<\/p>\n

He makes LOTS of money off us, but we don\u2019t get to keep it. He makes thousands every week. That\u2019s how he can afford his car and jewelry. He doesn\u2019t stay here. He probably has a nice house somewhere, not like the dump where he keeps us. He pays a woman who looks like a truck to guard us in case we get any ideas about running off naked.<\/p>\n

We get fed, but have nothing. They took our ID, clothes and everything else we had. I was lucky to find the paper to write this. If I\u2019m really lucky I\u2019ll somehow find an envelope and a stamp. Maybe I can get a stamp from one of my customers and mail the letter.<\/p>\n

Our guard buys the newspaper every day. If you can forgive me and still want me, put an ad in the lost and found pets section that says \u201cFound. Blue eyed basset hound near the corner of\u201d and list some street corner a couple of blocks north of El Cajon Blvd. about a mile east of the 805. My territory is not far from there. I\u2019ll try to walk to the corner in the ad. If I don\u2019t show between ten and midnight, try again until I show. It might take awhile for me to get a chance to make a run for it.<\/p>\n

You won\u2019t recognize me, but I\u2019ll recognize you. Bring some of my clothes.<\/p>\n

I heard there\u2019s a drug rehab place near uncle Glenn\u2019s. That would get me out of town. I can\u2019t ever come back here. They might find me. If I can make it through rehab I\u2019ll need to go somewhere else where they can\u2019t find me.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll find a way to pay you back for the rehab and the doctor. I need to be checked out. How could I be so stupid? I am so ashamed.<\/p>\n

Lorene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this Letter to Dad, Lorene admits that she has become a drug addict and a prostitute. But neither of these were by choice. She wants to escape, but is trapped. She hopes her father will forgive her and help her. 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