(From left) Leslie and Staci playfully fight over the hose trying to spray one another. “I remember thinking what is wrong with you? It's a girl you can't have butterflies, you know, because I've never been attracted to girls before, but I don't know something happened, and here we are friggin eight years later,” says Leslie.

Leslie and her kids, John and Tasia, prepare to fish on the back pond just down the hill from their trailer, one of the benefits of living out in the woods. Although they do not view their trailer as the perfect home, both Leslie and Staci have made a place for themselves in the tree-shrouded backcountry of Corning, Ohio.

“Go get your mom,” says Staci, as Tasia embraces her mom as she cries in the bathroom after an argument with John’s father Earl. In their home, there is no shortage of hugging and affection in both the best and worst of times.

(From right) Tasia, Leslie, Staci, and John play their Nintendo Wii in the living room together, a favorite activity to kill time in an isolated region of Ohio. “We've lost a couple of homes to fires… we've been homeless, we've been attacked… we lived in tents, you know… we've been through the worst… and it can only get better from here,” says Staci.

Tasia runs to greet Staci, jumping into her arms with her dog Romeo. “[Tasia] didn't like us kissing, holding hands… she was always like competing with Staci… She would say she hated when I kissed Stacy because it made her feel like I loved Staci more than her,” says Leslie.” The resentment didn’t last, “Her and Staci are getting along. Pretty good knock-on wood. Hopefully it stays that way,” says Leslie. “She went through some things when Thurman (her father) died, and I mean, I went through some things… I got separated from the family for a little while, but I think it made me and Tasia’s relationship better because we got to work on it and sort things out. Today, I think we're best friends,” says Staci.

Leslie talks on the phone with John’s father Earl, her “baby daddy,” while waiting for him to return home with Tasia. The family planned to go to Old Man’s Cave in Hocking Hills State Park earlier in the day with Earl’s car, but he never showed up. “It's hard when you feel the whole worlds against you,” says Leslie. After their car broke down, living on the property has been tremendously isolating, where the challenges of Leslie’s past relationship continue to resurface.

“It’s Halloween every day in this house,” says Leslie, as Tasia applies face paint in the bathroom. Throughout the afternoon, games, arts and crafts and magic shows take place.

“Staci is the cook,” says Leslie as she attempts to fry onions for the night’s dinner. Though the dishes may be simple, there is always enough for everyone.

Staci reveals Leslie and John’s “mother and son” tattoo of a string telephone that connects when together.

Leslie and Staci kiss in a makeshift lounge outside their trailer. “I just feel her. I feel her when she touches me. When she kisses me, I just feel something,” says Leslie. The reason [for marriage] for me is to make our family whole and complete,” says Staci.