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\"We didn't have a bond, and that was really sad,\" said Hurt, who was sober during her pregnancy but then relapsed two months after she gave birth. \"I was physically there for my son but I was not mentally there for him and I missed all of his first milestones.\"

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PHOTO: Erika Hurt, 28, is pictured in 2016, right, and posing with her son Parker, left, in 2019 to mark her three-year sobriety.
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\"That was ultimately my turning point, when I decided truly want to be sober and be in my son's life,\" she added. \"Now we're inseparable pretty much. He's a mama's boy.\"

Hurt, who works full time and has full-time custody of Parker, said their close bond is the reason she wanted to include Parker in the photo shoot to celebrate her sobriety.

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Ali Elizabeth Photography and Key Words Co.
PHOTO: Erika Hurt poses with her 3-year-old son Parker in a photo to celebrate her three-year sobriety anniversary.
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She is holding a sign that says \"Narcan saved my life\" in the photos because she wanted to give people \"a different picture\" of how a life can turn out after an overdose.

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Ali Elizabeth Photography and Key Words Co.
PHOTO: Erika Hurt poses with her 3-year-old son Parker in a photo to celebrate her three-year sobriety anniversary.
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While Hurt for the past three years has looked at the photo of herself overdosed every year on her sobriety date, she said she thinks the new photos of herself and Parker will be the photos she now looks to for motivation.

This Halloween, she took Parker trick-or-treating at the police station in Hope, where they saw Tallent, the police chief who released the photo of an overdosed Hurt.

\"I'm so happy that Erika has continued her sobriety and has her wonderful little boy who is growing up,\" he said. \"To see her in that light, as a doting mother, is just a great thing and I'm happy that she stayed sober.\"

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