Seventeen,
seven months living in the Hostel
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-Hostel food.
Bitter against all the
systems
and
structures –
including her Hostel home.
Cannot get a job,
she says,
because living at the Hostel is a
stigma.
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