It was left to Nicole to raise her sister and her niece, and she didn't know how to do all of those things.

Nicole grew up in extreme circumstances, but she couldn't get past the legal test for a downward departure.

Her grandmother was a drug dealer. Her mother was a drug addict, and she never knew her father. Nicole had a child at 18 and had to raise the child alone because the father was convicted of murder.

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.