Tanya
by Jeffrey Stockbridge
Tanya sits on the steps of the El Train at Kensington and Somerset.
Audio Transcription
Tanya: Uh, I escorted since I was 18 years old with a, uh, like an agency. Um, I only been out here for about a month… on the streets. Um, but, all together, I’m 25 now. So, 18 to 25, you know, I been doing this for, like, um… a couple, a lot of years.
$181.00 for food stamps, you know? It’s like… you know. So, once all that’s gone, you know, I gotta come out here and make as much money as I can, and I don’t like doing this, like, you know, this, like, I don’t like being on the street if I’m not on Xanies, you know, because, if, like, I’m… I’m more, like, not that, that, that, that afraid, if you know what I mean… to do it. You know. But… I am afraid. You know, you never know what can happen.
I do a bag of dope before I leave my house. If I have money at that point, um, I’ll do like, one or two bags of dope. I get ready, I get a shower, I come out, you know, catch a date, and you know, after I catch a date, well, I go get my drugs and then I catch another date, and then another date, you know. So… It’s kind of, it’s kinda rough out here. You gotta watch the cops 24 hours a day, you know what I mean? You gotta watch what car you get into. You know, I just, you know, I don’t like being out here. I hate being out here, you know. When I got out of Detox, I went into Detox in February, I was clean for 5 months. Those 5 months that I was clean, I couldn’t get a job at all. Like, I went so many places, like so many places, like Kmart, Pathmark, you know what I mean. Like, anything you can think of, I went to it. I even went to the mall to see if they had jobs, none of them were hiring.
This blog is brilliant.
Tanya passed away about 3 months ago as a result of her heroin addiction and her eating disorder . She left behind 2 children .
Tanya was my sister she had only 1 child she passed away from complication with ammonia
I see this girl all the time.
She is beautiful and young ,hopefully she will have the power to fight this demon… One day
Sad reality
R.I.P.Tanya, you will be missed love!
Tanya died of AIDS.
People did not need to know that thats mean she is gone
She was my sister she passed away from complication with ammonia
Do you mean PNEUMONIA?
She was my best friend. We were going to get clean together but, I got locked up trying to get one more. She passed away while I was in jail. I have been clean for about 5 years now. I will never forgive myself.
I’m so sorry.