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We needed two miracles
A year has made an enormous difference in the lives of Colin and Lorraine - thanks to their involvement in the Northampton Jesus Centre.Published: 21st Jan 2004
COLIN Witkowski and Lorraine Cheape had been together for four years when a friend had suggested they try heroin 'for the buzz.'
"I thought 'I'm not going to get addicted'" explains Lorraine. "But we didn't realise what it was like. The buzz soon stopped and we woke up ill, because we needed another hit. Then we realised it had got us. After that, we couldn't start the day without a hit and went from smoking to injecting and shop-lifting to get the money. We both got caught and sent to prison."
Things went from bad to worse. One day in 2000, they came home to find they'd been evicted. Their belongings were out in the street and the locks had been changed.
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