Pat
Hello, I’m Pat. I was married at seventeen. I had three children. I had a very violent relationship, a very violent marriage. It was very frightening and that, and you had nobody there you could turn to. Finally my husband left.
I became an alcoholic. At first it made me happy, and then it became a problem. And then I lived for it, you know, it’s all I lived for: drinking. I didn’t care about anything else or anybody else. I slept on park benches, I just didn’t care anymore.
Thirty four years ago the Brotherhood helped me find a place to live. I come here every day for social activities and friendship. And the food.
I’m a different woman now than when I stepped in off the streets with three children all those years ago.
The Brotherhood helped me to turn my life around. Yes, they have. They’ve been the greatest support I’ve ever had.
These people are my family now.