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It's in my Blood--From the state into their veins. Moments after cashing a welfare check they had picked up from Damaris's mother, she and Eddie shoot up at a friend's house where they are staying. Three toddlers had to be moved from this room as…

Family Portrait--In happier times, just after Linda-Marie was born, Damaris and Edward posed for a portrait with the baby where they work, McDonald's. Damaris had given up drugs while pregnant with Linda-Marie, so that the child would not become…

Our Room--With the morning light barely making it to the closet where Chris slept, he poked out after Jessica, 9, kicked him awake. Jessica always gets up early, about then has trouble getting her brother up. The two like school, though, and on…

The Cat Catch--In the graffiti-laden hallway that welcomes Jessica and Chris home everyday, Jessica gets some pent up aggression out on the cat Christy. Shortly after the photo was taken, the cat ran away. A two-year old was stuck with a discarded…

McDonald's Revisited--Hours after most children have been fed and in most cases put to bed, Jessica and Brandy are out looking for food at McDonald's. Because she is so hungery, Jessica looks in the trash receptical and downs a creamer, tilting her…

Chinacloset Doll--In the shooting gallery where Jessica and Chris live, there are weekends when junkies file through and shoot up in a room viewable from this china cabinet and watched her parents and people from the neightborhood shoot up. 'Oh…

The Closet--On busy nights, scores of junkies visit the apartment where Christopher and his sister live in the shadow of the capitol. The come in and shoot up just outside their bedroom door, or sometimes in the bedroom since that is where the…

He's not their grandfather, but he is the grandfather of the woman on the bed about to get hit by the nurse, Linda, Jessica and Chris's mother. He brings his granddaughter to the gallery because it's convenient and he doesn't want his granddaughter…

Through a cracked door Jessica watches as heroin addicts shoot drugs in her and her brother's bedroom. Each day Jessica comes home from school and finds her mother either hanging out on the porch waiting for a drug deal to come her way, or she is…

The Art of the Deal--Jessica and Christopher had two animals they loved--a german shepard named Baby and a cat named Christy. The cat later ran away because it was abused by the kids but they held on to Baby. In the background as Christopher poses…