Wow. This is right where I grew up and where my mom grew up as a kid.
Gulfport had a bad drug problem when I had friends living there, doesn’t seem to have changed.
I’m seeing a lot of immediate blame being thrown her grandmother’s way; I think it’s important people remember that expecting a grandmother to be on top of her granddaughter’s social media is a bit unrealistic IMO. My mother is 58 and struggles with very basic functions of her phone, to the point where she’ll have to ask me or my sister for help sometimes.
Miranda had substance abuse issues and was a repeat runaway, IDT it’s unreasonable to assume Grandma was overwhelmed…it’s hard to know where to start when someone you love has
so much occurring at once. It’s really a game of whack-a-mole when you’re trying to help someone that’s at that level of crisis. These issues have a way of overlapping and becoming inextricable from one another as time goes on.
I have had several partners and friends die from addiction, one in St.Pete from a fatal fentanyl overdose. The party scene in St.Pete was pretty unforgiving in my 20s, aside from the clubs, bars and beaches, there is a very large undercurrent of large dirty house parties that occur frequently (against my better judgement I attended too many to count, I’ll admit). It easy to get sucked in because the locale is abundant with lowlifes like these two that killed Miranda.
I pray her body is found ASAP. Her poor 11 month old baby