She says that though she has lived, unfazed, through many young deaths, her heart and soul ache for the companionship that Scott can no longer give her. Scott, her dearest friend, died in 1995 of a heroin overdose. QueenDom sought to get a clear picture of what it is like for a young urban woman who has been exposed to so many premature deaths. We wanted to know about a lifestyle only alluded to in her story. Kitty's story is not a freak tabloid news flash.
Drugs play a role, to different degrees, in the lives of many young people.
Young people lost in a modern world, young people masking their unhappiness, young people testing their mortality, young people having fun. Some dabble and get out. Some don't get out. And some, like Kitty, dance with death and come out not unscathed, but wiser. Read on to hear about Kitty's own trials with cocaine and her struggle to move forward, minus Scott.