"It's a very painful, awful death," she wrote to the Herald in a text. Her mother struggled with addiction for decades, she said. "I never thought this would happen. We always thought she would die from the drugs."
Silva recalls the instability of her childhood with Hevia – staying in motels, facing homelessness, or staying with family and friends while Hevia disappeared to presumably do drugs in Miami Beach and Liberty City.
Being the child of an addict meant growing up fast. Silva said she would hide her mother's drugs and drive around trailer parks in Miami, banging on doors trying to find her.
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