My mother had a lifelong drug addition and when I was 10 years old she was sent to jail for a long time for possession. Obviously, something had to be done with me (I never knew my dad) so I was sent to live with my Aunt Elle, mom’s youngest sister, in a small town in Alabama.
Looking back, Aunt Elle herself was something of a strange character but there was no-one else in the family who wanted to take me.