Love for her unborn child got Vanessa Roulette to quit cocaine for nearly a year back in 2005. Then the shame of smoking cocaine in front of her young son that got her to give it up again in 2007, hopefully this time for good. And finally, the depth of her caring or other young people prompted her to walk from Winnipeg to the Lake Manitoba First Nation earlier this month.

Roulette wanted to spare others the horror that she went through because of her addiction to crack cocaine. She also wanted people who were already hooked to know that they can give up drugs.

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