she took me. >> the sturdy home has long been hard for lakisha to find.ther's place was crowded with distant cousins. she said they didn't like her and some of them abused her. >> i didn't understand why i was getting treated so bad. i didn't understand why they hated me so much. >> yeah, i can't imagine anyone would understand that. >> can you imagine in sixth grade praying for a kid just to have somebody to love you? but then realizing that you just have to find love with inside yourself. >> eventually she found love with larry atkins, an aspiring plumber she met at a party. they married and started raising five kids together. >> our plan was i go to school and get my degree, he support me. then go to school and get his plumbing. we get a good job and then we get a house. >> but before that could happen, in 2015 lakisha got a terrible phone call. >> and she was like, larry got shot. larry got shot in his head. he was dead before the hit the ground. >> but habitat for humanity families do not get their homes in exchange for a sad story. volunteer labor m