• Vol. 03
  • Chapter 10
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IT’S GOOD YOU’RE SO YOUNG,
(Statements like that should come with a health warning.)

YOU’RE A BLANK CANVAS. they said.
(Yeah, right - we all know where that can lead, don't we?)

WE CAN'T OVERSTATE YOUR POTENTIAL, she was told.
(Well, they would say that, wouldn't they?)

YOU'VE GOT STAR QUALITY - their very words.
(That’s what we’d all love to hear, isn’t it?)

YOU’’LL BE THE NEXT TOP MODEL, they said.
(Who wouldn't be flattered?)

THEY PROMISED HER THE EARTH,
(but what they didn't tell her, is that when you’re in hospital
after an overdose, you’re as dead to them as last night's news)

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