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“I simply want to apologize to the court and the community and my family for my actions, and I take full responsibility for what I have done,” Rattray-Johnson told the court. “I recognize my actions have had a terrible impact on some of the most vulnerable people in our community, and for that, in particular, I am deeply sorry.

“The things I have done do not represent who I am,” she said.

Rattray-Johnson, a hair stylist who has struggled with addiction, expressed deep regret and made a “sincere promise” to come out of prison reformed. She said she would “never, ever be before the court again.”

The judge noted that her greedy, deadly business preyed on the city’s most vulnerable andthat Rattray-Johnson was essentially playing Russian roulette with other people’s lives.

The judge told the first-time offender that she was still “extremely young with a full life ahead of (her),” and said she was fortunate to have supporters who will help her once she’s served her prison term.

Her friends and family filed letters of support at the sentencing hearing. In the letters, those supporters condemned the hard-drug business and acknowledged its scourge.

Her family had no clue she was selling drugs and are grateful that the drugs are off the street.

Rattray-Johnson spent her final night of freedom at a family BBQ on Monday. (Her last supper was a chicken breast with sliced potatoes.)

She previously told the court that she plans on marrying convicted drug dealer Joshua Eyamie-Binks — who is serving 10 years for drugs and guns convictions — once both are released from prison. Eyamie-Binks, 31, was arrested with Rattray-Johnson in February after police executed 11 search warrants following a tip that the couple were trafficking fentanyl. Police seized a large quantity of hard drugs, several firearms and $136,000 found hidden throughout a home.