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Show Stevenson overcomes chollenae A very special student is graduating from Woods High School. Lara Sue Stevenson is graduating with a 4.0 grade point average. The road Lara took to this victory vic-tory has been a long and rocky one. She is a recovering alcoholic and addict with 1 9 months of sobriety. These are unusual accomplishments ac-complishments for one so young. In the sev enth grade at Centerville Junior High, Lara Sue was introduced to drugs and alcohol. Thinking she could use them as a crutch to get by, she quickly learned they only made it more difficult to proceed. Those 'carefree days of high school were anything but carefree. Things got worse and worse. No one suspected. Lara did not look like the stereotypical "user." She hit what some people call bottom' one day before her 17th birthday. Lara joL.ed a 12-step recovery program, changed schools to Woods Cross High and was lucky enough to get a counselor who wanted her to succeed. Support from family, the counselor and a close friend, created the kind of help that can save a person. These people are as thrilled with Lara's success as she is. The Woods Cross senior will be going to Dixie College and will become a nurse. Lara Sue said, "I am taking my life one day at a time now and loving it I consider it a miracle, and how can you complain about that?" |