Leonie’s Story
Leonie (known as Loll) started life without a sense of identity, belonging or love. She had been given away at birth, without even a name. Her adoptive family was abusive, and by the time she was 11, she was using drugs to ease the pain. At 14, she ran away in a desperate effort to find what she was searching for. Broken after decades of destructive living, a friend’s encouragement to ‘choose life’ set her on a path to a life changing relationship with God.
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