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BURNED IN MY COT... but look at me now!

Tianna-Joy King, 28, Adelaide, SA

Sitting down at a local cafe with my mum, Antoinette, I was very glad to be outside in the fresh air.

Aged 10, I’d just been discharged from hospital after receiving treatment for burns and was covered head-to-toe in bandages.

As we were eating our food, though, I couldn’t help but notice intense stares coming from a table of older people nearby.

‘She shouldn’t be allowed out in public looking like that,’ one of them said, loud enough for us to

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