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Apex, North Carolina Jennifer Alba sifts through the boxes of photographs and documents. It's a collection of what once was, and what her life has become. A mother sorting through pain. There's her son, Joseph, as an infant, smiling, dressed in a onesie with his bright blue eyes matching the blue backdrop. He was her firstborn, a gift who came into her life when she was just 17. Not too far away lies the document from a middle school recommending that he be suspended for the last few weeks of school after being caught with marijuana. He was 13.It was the start of a lifelong struggle with drug abuse that his mother desperately wanted him to break.
The sign in front of the church bears a fitting message:"What on Earth am I here for?"Standing over her oldest son's grave, Alba says she's here to speak up for her son and make him"proud he's not forgotten.""I couldn't save him, but I'll never stop talking about him," she says."Why else would we go through 16 years of hell? That is the reason."She repeats,"that's the reason.
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