Beautiful Human
Seventeen, seven months living in the YMCA, following eight years in a Children’s Home – ‘in Care’ it is called.
Ten GCSEs.
Strong with words and opinions.
Lives on ten pounds a week, cosmetics, toiletries, transport, non-YMCA food.
Bitter against all the systems and structures – including the YMCA.
Cannot get a job, she says, because living at the YMCA is a stigma.
Beautiful human .................
