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Hi, I'm Lucy, I've never actually shared a front of so many people, so I'm actually quite

worried at the moment.

Sitting over there, I've seen a lot of many people go up here and stuff more.

Well, I was born, as you know, I go to Adity, I was born in 1994 and you know, I've had

a good childhood, my nan died in 1999 and that was the sort of turning point for the whole

family sort of started.

You could see differences and my mum who is recovering alcohol in my life.

That was when you could start drinking socially, going out and doing an event and stuff.

And we went to Thailand for a month and I loved it at the time and I didn't see anything

wrong with it.

But looking back on it now, I could see how it was very strange and because we were left

for so long, it was sort of the family together trying to, like, no arguments and it was

a difficult time.

And we had spoken about it with mum earlier trying to work out what I was going to say.

And I thought we had like a room with a balcony, so mum put me to bed, she could sort of

go out and have some time for us out, but I got told today that she didn't and we were

just stuck in one bedroom.

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