“…the man that I have now is the man I prayed for.”

Ana Hankins thought her husband’s drug addictions were behind them. Now, after three years of marriage, Anthony had relapsed and disappeared into the streets of Los Angeles again. “I found him in LA, a crack house. He didn't want me there; He asked me to leave, and I was like, I can't leave you here. You have to come with me” Ana explains.

Anthony decided to go home with Ana and later entered rehab where he recommitted his life to Christ. The two began going to church together, and even renewed their vows ---- they believed they had a fresh new start to their marriage. Their hopes of a blissful future, however, would soon fade. With Ana coming from Colombia, South America, and Anthony raised in Chicago, cultural differences such as how

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