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A Very Fine House is an intimate memoir of a mothers Norman Rockwell family turned upside down by her daughters descent into meth addiction and crime. Bright and beautiful, Annie is an unlikely candidate for meth. Living fast and hard on the streets of Bend, Oregon, she commits crimes against herself, the community, and her own family. The author chronicles her childs addiction in a way that other writers have not written about addiction. What begins as an obsession to save her daughter, and a rage against God for allowing drugs to devour her college-age girl, transforms into release in a life changing letting-go-and-letting-God moment. The reader is first introduced to the Stoefen family and Barbaras dream for its idyllic future. Kinks in the perfect life appear.



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Barbara Cofer Stoefen

Barbara Cofer Stoefen is a drug prevention activist in Oregon and advocate for recovering addicts. A graduate of the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America's (CADCA) National Coalition Academy, she is an active board member on several coalitions working to reduce drug and alcohol abuse among minors. She is a requested speaker on addiction in schools, colleges, churches, and at community events, and has been featured in various media events.While she pursues this work with passion, her background is in business and not addiction. Barbara holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and spent her early career in human resource management at well-known high-tech Silicon Valley companies. For the past twenty years she has earned her living as owner of a Northwest physician recruitment firm. Barbara has been married to Pete for thirty-three years. Their two adult children, Annie and Jeff, are the joys of their lives.



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