I met Tracy 22 years ago when she was coming into Peers Victoria and living homeless and hard on city streets. There were times I doubted she would make it. We caught up for the first time in all these years yesterday at the @namingacrisis art exhibition and installation (in the lower Bay Centre Tuesday through Friday afternoons until April 26) marking 10 years of toxic drug deaths. She’s now 17 years in recovery, working as a tenant support worker in the Lower Mainland and holding on tight to an adult daughter who is in her own struggle in the Downtown Eastside. “I went to Mission to get sober, and was 27 days into sobriety when my dad died,” recalled Tracy. A death of someone close can throw a person back into their troubles pretty quickly in those early days, but for Tracy, it was the opposite. “I just felt something shift, and I knew I’d be ok.”