Ameri Calls from Someone's Home

Last evening we had one call from Ameri. It was from a payphone that she had used to make arrangements to get a twenty from Mom. We missed the call. When we called back someone picked up but said they had not seen a small woman with golden hair. Our hearts sank.

Today we got another call from a cellular phone. The number and name popped up on the caller ID. I called back and Ameri came on right away. The police had picked her up and had brought her to an apartment house. Ameri's mom was at her office so I rang off and called Mom and gave her the number. Mom called and I heard later that it was a very animated and blustery call from Ameri's end. Ameri said that she was drunk. She said that earlier in the day she had to go to the hospital because she had thrown up blood. I got that information not from Mom or Ameri but from a woman who had over heard the conversation. The woman told me she had arrived at the apartment just as Ameri was getting the call from Mom. The woman told me that she had just been released from 30 days in jail as the result of a parole violation from a DUI. She said that Ameri's conversation was shocking in it content and level of anger toward Mom who was on the line. After Ameri left the woman called me and opened her heart. She said she saw herself in Ameri from her start down a rough road twenty two years ago. There are many damaged people who have good hearts but are trapped in the cycle they have chosen. I told her a bit about Ameri and directed her to this site. She said that the young man that Ameri is now with is not safe to be with. He is cruel to his mother, in whose home he lives, and he has a history with the courts and with law enforcement. I also spoke with the former girl friend of the man that Ameri is now with. She is eighteen. She also said he is dangerous.

My thanks to these two women for speaking to me about this.

I also got a piece of mail today from an agency of state government in the state where she is now. They told me that my information needed to be in a form that was included in the envelope. They also offered to send some brochures if I thought that they may be of any help. My jaw is still clinched.

I once described my relationship with Ameri as a replay of Job. It remains so today.