My name is Christy Baldwin I am 28 years old and everything in my life started to go downhill after I lost my mom I’m stage 4 Advanced be cancer mm 12 she passed away 12 1812 she was only 45 years old and cancer took her from me in 3 months they gave her 12 but she did not last that long shortly after that I lost my home then became pregnant with a son I didn’t know who the father was and I had already had a 3 year old and lived in an efficiency apartment with my stepdad my mother asked me to not let him be on the streets and no help each other so I was out looking for jobs I became the manager of a dance club name Wise Guys in Washington Park Illinois shortly after I had my son he moved to Boston with his adopted mother who also had cancer in the past but it’s not was Survivor and all she ever wanted was a child I helped her with that and I feel like a great person but after losing a child in my mother it has really taken its toll on my life along with working in a strip club which is not a very good environment for anybody I met a man named Michael purdle shortly after I was having a rough time I started drinking heavily and lost my job I woke up the next day and told myself I was never drinking again Michael started beating me harassing me stealing my money and mentally and physically abusing me it went on for several months I lost 90 lb I lost my job that I got back and I left my own home eventually in the end Michael told me that I wasn’t leaving that relationship and if I was I was going in a body bag he left one day I pack my s*** up and I hit the road and I’ve been homeless ever since I miss my son I haven’t seen him since he left for Boston I went through a couple City vehicles and I just keep having bad luck I want my oldest son back in my life and I cannot because I do not have a home I’ve been paying hotel rooms I’ve been jumping from friend’s couch to car I’ve slept in my car several nights but now I do not have a car I do not have a home I do not have my children the abuse that I endured for Michael got me into the position that I am now he literally ripped everything and everyone from my life they were going to come visit me with my child and they decided against it because of the things I told them and they witnessed from my abuse I lost contact with them for several months because of all those stolen in broken cell phones I went through because of him everyone told me to leave him and then they would help I did and I’ve been on the streets this is a lot to say but I lost my mother I lost my child I lost my job’s my home from What I call the series of unfortunate events that keep occurring in my life I’m a very good person I try to help everyone that I can in any way that I can and I just keep getting walked on I’ve been trying to turn my life around I’ve been trying to have my son’s in my life as much as possible paying for hotels has become too expensive I keep losing my stuff do two cars breaking down jumping from place to place not having nowhere to keep my stuff stable I just need a step in the right direction I need help obviously what I’m doing and what I’m trying and the ways that I’m trying to turn my life around is not helping me very much I keep ending up in the same position homeless without nothing I do have a job I do make a little bit of money here and there but it is not getting me nowhere hafting to take care of my son that I have with school supplies and Christmas and everything just trying to keep a roof over my head and wheels to get around I am currently staying with my friend Steven who is also going under himself I meant Steven a few years back through Facebook when I was working at a place called J McArthur’s I kept seeing posts from Steven that were depressing down and sad talking about how he is going to be homeless forever how he doesn’t have a job and many horrible things Stephen was abused when he was younger and he’s had a very hard life dealing with the abuse and the on-again-off-again drug habit that he has developed he is a very good person and I reached out to him because I was in charge of hiring someone to do the dishes there at J McArthur’s I Enlisted the help of Steven we became very close friends and Steven got an apartment no longer was he homeless and without a job however we no longer have that job due to the business closing down Stephen found a new job and has now a place and has turned the tables around to help me I’ve been here for 3 days Steven owes $500 on his electric and is about to be shut off on top of trying to help me Stevens car is also at its Wit’s End and keeps breaking down he keeps exhausting all his funds into it just to get back and forth to work so basically we are looking for some help a step in the right direction I have never been this down a depressed and lost in life I have nobody but Steven my mother’s past my dad is gone my grandmother doesn’t talk to me since my mother passed she didn’t even go to her funeral I am an only child I have no aunts and uncles beings my mom was an only child so was my grandma and my great grandma literally I have zero people to even have my back so basically I need help I need help getting back on my feet I want my son back desperately I want my life back test really I’m a very hard worker you can ask anybody I would be forever grateful just for a little help getting to where I need to be I will work very hard to keep it and sustain it for me and my son I need a car to get back and forth to work to get my son to the doctor’s office just to have him with me would make a world of difference I cry every night every night wishing I never met Michael wishing you never tore my life for me but thankful that I found Steven in the Darkness Steven doesn’t know I’m writing this but he needs help also he needs help for his electric bill and his vehicle if you loses his vehicle how will he get to work how will he even come close to paying his electric bill with no car to get to work he may lose his job and his home so I am asking help for Steven also me I just need help getting into a place I’m tired of being on the streets I’ve slept in the rain I’ve slept in the cold and it’s taking its toll on me I’m not the best person to explain my story is because they just don’t gather correctly in my head and come out of my mouth right I’m very bad at writing in telling my story getting it to come out right I tried to explain short and simple in the best way I can if you would like to talk to me in person I’m available and open at any time if you would like to meet me or Steven or no more about our story feel free to contact me 314-328-3034 I’m also on Facebook Kristy M. Baldwin Stevens Facebook is Steven Michael Shirley