“She was made to feel special, like nothing she did could ever be wrong. She was encouraged to be open and free, to ignore the natural instincts which might protect her from predators. At a young age she was picked up and instructed in the art of pleasure, including self-pleasuring. She was told that conservative dress codes were oppressive and that she should feel able to express herself, be kinky! She moved from long to short skirts, hitched them high and lowered the buttons on her shirt. She was encouraged to pursue her desires and not to let nature get in the way. Pumped full of drugs from a young age, drugs which meant she could be used and discarded more easily, but when these failed, she found herself diseased and pregnant. More drugs, a trip to be ‘fixed’, tidied up, made presentable. She no longer knew what it was to be a woman, if anything at all. She had been picked up and put down so many times, it was all she knew. She was deadened by it all. In fleeting moments she glimpsed the promise of love, of someone willing to lay down their own life to protect her, but it was always the same – once they’d got what they wanted from her, they left. Every choice she made was informed by this cycle she was trapped in.”