An unlikely friendship between a mom suffering long-term drug addiction and the woman who fostered her daughter has changed all three lives, and many more by association. Not only has former addict Heather Bone beaten her demons, but she has earned back custody of her child, Kristina. Heather and foster mom, Nanci Weinstein, remain close to this day. Heather struggled with drugs since the age of 13, eventually becoming addicted to heroin and prescription medication. After using meth while pregnant in 2014, her weeks-old baby girl, Kristina, was taken into child protective custody, reported The San Diego Union-Tribune. Heather was devastated. Nanci—who herself was adopted by a family in 1975 when she was 2 months old—and her husband David of Encinitas, California, became Kristina’s court-appointed foster parents. Kristina was Nanci’s second foster child. Despite Heather’s addiction, Nanci’s empathy for the struggling mom was immediate. “As a mom, I can only put …