Sent for One

The story begins in the spring of 1998 when the author, Wendy Shelley, began collecting rent money from tenants in the apartment buildings her husband managed. On one of her trips she met Sue, a drug addict, an alcoholic – a lady who was lost without hope.

Sue could not have been any more different than the author. Wendy grew up with loving parents, lived most of her life on a farm, and was in the midst of raising her own family. Sue, however, had to raise herself, lived in the projects, a...