>> it has been said that she took a leave of absence. she didn't take a leave of absence. she dropped out. she didn't have a place to live shelf didn't have a husband and she didn't have any money. >> i was literally looking for friends which is how i met the people that i shouldn't have met. >> one of gloria's new best friends was a 60-year-old woman named niva snyder. >> i really became very fond of her. i probably was looking for a mother. she was that much older. what i didn't realize, because he didn't have a scrap of street sense was that there was someone involved in the drug trade. >> neva dealt drug amphetamine. >> as someone who hadn't the faintest idea how to express her feels, i think self-medication was the answer. a pill here, a pill there, some powder. >> that was the criminal element where that little area hung out.