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Friend or foe?

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Sitting on the grass beside my girlfriend Grace, I spotted a familiar face approaching from across the park.

‘Can I join you?’ Chelsea, then 17, smiled, plonking herself down.

It was March 2018 and I’d been with Grace, then 16, for six months.

I was 14, and still working out who I was.

Experimenting with my sexuality. And with alcohol, too…

Life at home hadn’t been easy, and I’d been in and out of care.

But I loved spending time with Grace.

And though Chelsea, who was a friend of Grace’s housemate, often turned up uninvited, we had fun together.

Hanging out in the park, taking

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