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She was happy with Mary. It was uncomfortable and awkward in the beginning but Mary helped her overcome that vulnerable feeling, Mary understood she had been mistreated and neglected. Mary acted protective towards her and made sure her mother was kept away. During her time with Mary she got enrolled at college as school just wasn’t for her and she met other children just like her, the unloved and abused generation. Nine months went by and Mary announced she was retiring, the panic and vulnerability flooded back into her. What was going to happen? She knew her safe haven had gone.
She was moved around like cargo, being shipped from place to place and without Mary her mother was able to interfere. Other foster carers didn’t understand and her mother made sure she was seen as the ‘problem’, a messed up child that was just bad to the core, destroying everything she touched. During her placements she experienced even more neglect, confined to her room and without food she would often run away. Her worst experience was with Carol, she was only in it for the money and it was as if she never existed. Carol would often call up her mother and they would swap stories of how bad she was, she felt violated and trapped, her only solace was music. She was confined to her room anyway so she would get lost in the words of the songs and dream of one day being free.
It was shortly after her sixteenth birthday and she was wrapping presents for Carols daughter when Carol threw a pair of sharp scissors at her head, however this was witnessed by Carols friend Rosie. So they made a complaint to social services and Carol was investigated but it was never upheld, why did no one ever believe her? She knew at sixteen they couldn’t force her to stay in foster care anymore.
So she didn’t!