Growing up, Stacy Peterson was on the move.
But no matter where her family went, trouble followed.
There was an absent mother. Alcoholism. Domestic violence. Troubled finances. Two sisters who died young. A brother in prison. More than 20 addresses, and with them, new schools.
Her younger sister, Cassandra Cales, 22, revisits the family's history bluntly.
"We had a - - - - - - up childhood," she said. "It was tough."
Out of this chaos emerged Stacy, quiet, maternal, organized, crafty, pretty, a good student who graduated early from Romeoville High School, a young woman forced to grow up too soon.
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