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Chapter forty - Elsie
Apparently there are things that happen during your life that can make you re-evaluate everything you've ever done and from the moment Billy tells me my mum has tried to kill herself, my mind has replayed every cruel thing I've ever said or done to her, especially recently.
I might not have been the pretty, outgoing, fashionable daughter that she really wanted, but I worked hard at school, kept my room tidy, I didn't go out to parties or take drugs, she never had to worry that I wouldn't come home or would be in a dangerous situation.
I figured if I couldn't be the daughter she wanted, I could at least try to make her happy and proud of me. I was a good girl.
Liar!
Immediately the memory of the night I lost my virginity is thrown into
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