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P is for Princess...
- By girly-d
- On 14/04/2019
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It’s not supposed to be like this…
My life
I’m supposed to be a Princess…
It’s all the books talked about when I was a little girl growing up and I still believed in fairytales
”You’ll meet a handsome prince” they said…
”Live in a fairytale castle” they said…
”You'll ride around on sparkling unicorns all day and everything will be all fluffy and nice” they said…
Yeah?
Well the books can fuck right off…because there is no fairytale - not for me; not now…and as I look around at this whacking great pile of shit that used to be my life, I doubt that there ever will be…
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Generation Hex....
- By girly-d
- On 20/02/2019
- 2 comments
Mental illness runs in my family.
Addiction and suicide are rife - My fathers side mainly.
I have his hair. And the same blue/grey eyes. I wonder if this counts? That one day this will be enough to tip me over - and I get to join the ranks of all of those who came before me.
They grew up in and out of care, my fathers family...Seven institutionalised adults came churning out of the machine after my nan decided that she didn't much like children after all once they'd arrived. I can only imagine the damage that did to them all...I can't even begin to imagine how that must have felt.
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