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Instead, they steal the food they need to make it through the day. >> i don't like asking for money. unless i really need it. i will steal something for me, myself than ask somebody else for money. i don't want to look like a bum, dude. we don't sit in the corner and ask for money. this is like a subway sandwich, dude. >> danielle and carlene often spend their days hanging around downtown san diego. at night, they sneak into local hotels to use the internet so they can send e-mails to their incarcerated boyfriends. >> right now we have to go in the ramada and pretend like we're guests and act ...

>> many of danielle's friends oppose her relationship, warning her that slick is a womanizer, but danielle doesn't believe him. she says they are destined to be together. slick won't allow the cameras to record the visit, but afterwards danielle leaves in good spirits. >> it went good. he thinks -- he said he's going to start writing me now so i'm happy. he thinks he'll in for maybe four months. it could be longer. i'm going to miss him, but when he gets out it's going to be so much -- so fun to see him, like, you know, when you haven't seen someone for a year or something, like oh, you know. ...

Can do for money, and even that i couldn't do. i was like i'll get, but i can't do that no more. >> but for danielle, there are more problems in her life than just finding shelter. danielle is battling addiction. while she has a history of using pot and alcohol, she has recently started turning to harder, more addictive drugs. >> i'm addicted, like i'm getting addicted to crystal meth. it's just like when it comes to crystal meth, you're always chasing that high, and then there's a point when you're high and then, like, well, i want to stay this high so you keep on hitting it and hitting it an...

For me to survive without a job. like a shelter, can i just like not have to work for the next two years and live in a shelter. >> danielle's lack of motivation may be in no small part due to her chronic drug use. she says she has been using crystal meth for some time and it has started to affect her both mentally and physically. >> i've been coughing up blood, too. i am an addict. i feel like i go down like down and dirty [ bleep ] places just to get high. i've experienced some [ bleep ] things out here, an it's not even that far from where i came from. i just don't even care anymore. >> if h...

It is the night before 19-year-old danielle has to leave the hotel that she has called home for the last four weeks. her parents paid for the month and hopes that danielle would get her life in order and possibly get a job. >> this is my last day in this hotel room. i was never really here that much, but i'm hoping that i'll be with -- i'll be with roy for a little while. >> reporter: instead of finding a job, danielle decided to move in with a man she recently met on the trolley named roy, a man she barely knows. >> no. i got up at the trolley stop because i had been trolley hopping. i ran in...