Premium
Opening Credits
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Dedication
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Content Note
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Prologue
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Author's Note on Language
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Trauma
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Bath of Silence
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Chapter 01: Home
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Chapter 02: Doors Unlocked
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Chapter 03: Blackberry Jam
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Chapter 04: Tartan Trousers
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Chapter 05: Teenage Rebellion
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Chapter 06: The Off Licence
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Chapter 07: When Everything Changed
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Chapter 08: A&E May 2006
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Chapter 09: In Search of Myself
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Chapter 10: What The Picture Didn't Show
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Chapter 11: Circling the Wound
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Chapter 12: The Comfort That Wasn’t
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Chapter 13: Called it Stress
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Chapter 14: Playing the Survivor
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Chapter 15: Triggers
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Chapter 16: Something I Ate
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Chapter 17: Called by Its Name
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Chapter 18: Lost in Plain Sight
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Chapter 19: Crossing Borders to Survive
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Chapter 20: Behind the Aperitivo Smile
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Chapter 21: Same Feeling, Different Room
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Chapter 22: When Worth Weighed Nothing
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Chapter 23: The Bottom of Their Shoe
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Chapter 24: Second Border Crossing, First Hope
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Chapter 25: Sunlight Without the Shadow
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Chapter 26: Sanctified and Silenced
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Chapter 27: A Lease of New Life
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Chapter 28: The Weight Beneath the Cradle
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Chapter 29: Settling Down
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Chapter 30: When Love Kept Me Alive
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Chapter 31: Locking Doors
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Chapter 32: The Panic They Called Personality
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Chapter 33: Holy Before I Was Whole
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Chapter 34: Texting the Devil
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Chapter 35: Swept Away by the Rip Tide
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Chapter 36: Only Poison Matched the Pain
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Chapter 37: Googling Justice
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Chapter 38: He Has Lawyers, Victims Have Truth
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Chapter 39: Imagined Injustice Screams Louder
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Chapter 40: The Truth Wouldn’t Let Me Sleep
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Chapter 41: What I Already Knew
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Chapter 42: Crumbs, Clarity and Courage
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Chapter 43: Truth at the Door
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Chapter 44: White Trainers on Black Tarmac
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Chapter 45: Not the Perfect Victim
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Chapter 46: Pre-Shrunk and Still Growing
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Chapter 47: The Weight of Belief
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Chapter 48: Taking the Wheel
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Chapter 49: Invisible Fault Lines
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Chapter 50: It Started with a Message
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Chapter 51: The Mask Behind the Mask
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Chapter 52: It Cannot Be Me
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Chapter 53: Naming What Was Always There
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Chapter 54: What Lies Beneath
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Chapter 55: Laughter Before the Grief
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Chapter 56: Channelling Anger
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Chapter 57: Fault with Forgiveness
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Chapter 58: Unconventional Therapies
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Chapter 59: Impact On Those Around Me
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Chapter 60: Between the Ice and the Iron
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Chapter 61: Left Behind in a Language
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Chapter 62: Surrendering
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Chapter 63: A Letter Without Warning
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Chapter 64: Justice Denied by Design
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Chapter 65: The Friend Who Never Showed Up
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Chapter 66: Bedtime in a Broken World
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Chapter 67: The Day the Banks Broke
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Chapter 68: The Law Doesn’t Care
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Chapter 69: Guilty for Being Me
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Chapter 70: My Casual Shoes on Solid Ground
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Closing Words
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Epilogue: Letter to My Younger Self
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Author’s Note
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Acknowledgements
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If You Need Support
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About the Author
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Share Your Thoughts
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Closing Credits
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