After years of smoking crack with her mother, shooting heroin and living on the streets, Skyla Nieves completed an incredible journey this week graduating with honors from a nursing degree program.
The odds were against her, but the 29 year-old woman turned her life around and on May 3 graduated from Catawba Valley Community College in North Carolina.
She hopes to practice in the same rehab center where she was once a patient.
(READ the story, w/ photo, from the Charlotte Observer)