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Everyone has a story to tell ... this is mine.

Having survived childhood abuse and an unhappy adolescence, I became involved with a boy from a ‘good Christian family’ and fell pregnant at the age of sixteen.

After being forced to have an abortion and the subsequent break up of our relationship when I was just seventeen, I became involved with another man and fell pregnant again almost immediately. We were hastily married in a classic shotgun wedding before the birth of my daughter which coincided, almost to the day, with my eighteenth birthday.

My son was born when I was nineteen and by the time I was twenty I was a single mum...