She was adopted by a lawyer who ran the law firm where she "worked," and slowly he assisted her in kicking the habit-with the help of an eccentric group of fellow addicts who became, at last, a family to her-and catching up on her education. Cupcake wakes up days later, not sure of how she ended up in this state and from that moment begins to turn her life around. He beats her nearly to death, rapes her, and then leaves her body behind a dumpster. She hits rock bottom when, in desperation, she steals crack from her drug dealer. Cupcake flits from job to job, miraculously, given that she never fails to show up without some cocktail of narcotics floating in her system.
He convinces her to get a real job and learn to speak proper English-but he also abuses her and introduces her to crack cocaine.
Soon she meets a man, falls in love, and gets married. Cup takes advantage of her new freedom to start a drug-dealing operation with her stepfather, who also manages a stable of colorful prostitutes. For the first time she found a family, but when Cupcake was blasted in the back with a 12-gauge shotgun, she was once more taken in by the system.Īt 16, her stepfather reeneters her life and engineers an "emancipation," in which the courts declare her an adult and free her, finally, from the child welfare system. She settled down in Los Angeles and found a home in the Crips, where she was taken in and befriended by gangsters like the legendary "Monster" Kody Scott. She eventually fled the house, only to find herself wandering from misadventure to misadventure in the "system," while also developing a massive appetite for drugs and alcohol, an appetite she paid for by turning tricks. Rather than being allowed to live with the man she believed to be her father-who turns out to have been her stepfather-she is forced into a foster home where the kids were terrorized, the refrigerator padlocked, and Cupcake sexually abused. Here is the threshold of a hell for young Cupcake. After squeezing out from under her mother, Cupcake calmly walked over to the phone and called her aunt Lori. She struggled to wake her up, pushing and pulling until she managed to tug her mother's lifeless corpse onto her own small body, crushing her beneath its dead weight.
Eleven-year-old Cupcake Brown woke up on the bicentennial and found her mother still in bed.
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