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Reggie: Going undercover was one way to end the war on drugs. It was also a way to do what needed to be done without all the rules. What going undercover wasn’t supposed to do was bring her into my life. I wasn’t supposed to find the one at her lowest point, help her rise, only for her to bring me to my own knees. That wasn’t supposed to happen at all. Jade: Teenagers don’t always make the right decisions and I was a classic one, which landed me with one too many black eyes and eventually homeless. Almost a year later, eating from out of dumpsters and stealing from bodegas, I run into this guy twice. He helped me the first time and gives me money the second. Then he acts like I was disgusting to him, so it took everything in me not to throw the money back at him. He was right — I needed it. But I never wanted to see him again. Not as a cop and not with eyes that said he wanted to do more than help.Yeah, that wasn’t happening, either.