She eventually fled the house, only to find herself wandering from misadventure to misadventure in the "system," while also developing a massive appetite for drugs and alcohol, an appetite she paid for by turning tricks. Rather than being allowed to live with the man she believed to be her father-who turns out to have been her stepfather-she is forced into a foster home where the kids were terrorized, the refrigerator padlocked, and Cupcake sexually abused. Here is the threshold of a hell for young Cupcake. After squeezing out from under her mother, Cupcake calmly walked over to the phone and called her aunt Lori. She struggled to wake her up, pushing and pulling until she managed to tug her mother's lifeless corpse onto her own small body, crushing her beneath its dead weight. Eleven-year-old Cupcake Brown woke up on the bicentennial and found her mother still in bed.
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