By the time Ginny Burton was 14 years old, she was smoking crack cocaine. By 16, she was the victim of sexual assault, addicted to heroin, and already facing the kind of trauma most people couldn’t imagine in a lifetime. But at 48, she walked across a graduation stage wearing honors cords from the University of Washington. This is the extraordinary story of how one woman escaped a life of addiction, crime, and incarceration — and became a symbol of hope, redemption, and resilience.
