"My sister."

Or "Sussy." When it came to her baby brother by 10 ½ years, she wanted to be called something other than KeKe, short for Shakia Quinsha. So she was "Sussy," and he was "Boot," and they really don't know why. All they know is they've been close since always.

"He leaned on me and I leaned on him. Especially the nights that that my mom wasn't around," KeKe said. "She was a drug addict and she was in and out. She's been clean 13 years on Aug. 19."

KeKe and Tee and Camillia Stewart have gone public with Camillia's battle because, like KeKe says, "It's a victory."

Tee has written about how when he was in kindergarten he was greeted in the school office by the usually strong, outgoing KeKe reduced to tears. She was only 17, but had to tell him their mother had been shot. A year later she took a basketball scholarship to Middle Tennessee State, but stayed just three days and went back home to help her aunt and grandmother raise Tee.

When she had her daughter a year later, she told her mother if she didn't get clean she wouldn't let her be a part of her life. When MTSU recognized KeKe's scholarship in 2010, Camillia was clean enough to take care of her granddaughter, just like KeKe kept an eye on Tee.

"I think my daughter saved her life," KeKe said.