Hear Me Roar Magazine

Out Back with the Lions (Jackie May)
By Montana Rose
Photos By: Sarah Dilts
HMUA: Kaylin Everage, Kaylin's Bloomin Beauties
Dress: Wonderland Dress Rentals Krystle Hughes
Lead on site Assistant: Nalani Wulfurt

At the young age of nine years old, Jackie May had seen a lot of chaos in her life and was only witnessing more. Her father who had drinking problems for most of her childhood had passed away leaving her in the care of the state when her mother had begun to partake in illegal substances, introduced to them by a boyfriend. Able to stay with an older sister, Jackie was an alcoholic by the time she was 13 years old.
These are merely some key points of Jackie May’s story that she shared with me on April 22, 2022, for publication in the second edition of Layton based magazine Hear Me Roar, but they say a lot about what she had to endure. They tell a story about a little girl who grew up way too fast, the unfortunate truth for many. But everyone has a story, and every story has a beginning. At age 18, Jackie was graduating from drug court for the second time in her life and with a baby of all things.
Things seemed to clear up some for Jackie as time went by but when her husband went to the dentist for tooth pain, they both spiraled out of control. The dentist had prescribed Jackie’s husband with Oxi-Codon, a massive pain killer and it did just that. It killed the pain, and so much so that even Jackie herself began to look for reasons to go to the dentist. They were in the process of buying a trailer home and their lives would never be the same again. In time Jackie’s husband was arrested and sent back to prison, and when the authorities demanded a drug test from Jackie, she was allowed to give her proper goodbyes before her children, like her before, were taken by the state.
Thankfully with the grace filled hands of Jackie’s mother-in-law, her children were taken in, but not for very long. In due time, they were back in the care of the state as their grandmother passed on, having taken her own life. Before long they were back with family, their grandpa having taken it upon himself to care for them while their parents remained in jail. Almost a year to the day later however, he too committed su***de, returning to his loves side while his grandchildren were finally able to return to their parents two days before Christmas.
After being released from jail, Jackie May and her husband spent time with their boys and saved as much as they could to benefit their futures. Jackie says that things are looking up and she’s been four years sober from pills and illegal substances, but that the hardest part will be the day that she has to explain to her children where their grandparents are. “They’re only 10, 8, and 6,” Jackie said. “I don’t think now is the time.” Jackie is proud however to say that she is working very diligently with her husband to better their credit scores in order to eventually acquire a loan for land. It is their hope that they can find somewhere to raise their children and grow their own crops. Opportunities, Jackie says, have made themselves known and doors have been unlocked. She hopes that one day they might have a coffee shop or even an animal sanctuary and when that happens, you’ll find me drinking cappuccino with the lions.

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