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Girl with pink feathers in hair

Me: ‘So you like pink then?’ She (8-year-old): ‘Yes’ [ 'ME TOO,' says the 4-year-old. She also says she wants to be a mum. With a baby in her belly.] She: ‘I like orange too.’ Me: ‘Pink and orange?’ She: … Continue reading

16. January 2005 by Caroline
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Jesus on my head

“Jesus broke his arm,” she says, clutching the crucifix like a popsicle. The plastic figure’s limb has come loose from the body and hangs sickly from a nail on the cross bar. The little girl, all pre-Raphaelite features and messy … Continue reading

25. June 2002 by Caroline
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