“…he ended up putting a gun to my head and he told me that he was gonna kill me, um, and then kill himself.”

Brandon and Terra Chism were only fifteen and sixteen when their lives collided in 1997— by the time they were nineteen, they were married, had two children, a mortgage, and a storm brewing in their home. According to Terra, there was a lot of infidelity in our relationship, um, on both parts. Neither one of us were good.”

Brandon was often in jail, while Terra was clinging to hope that he would change. Brandon says, “I started getting locked up at 12 --- I would drink, I would snort, I would smoke. It didn't matter. I just partied. My brain was just wired that way from a young age considering the home that I grew up in.”

Though Brandon desired better for his home, he found himse

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