I miss how a couple of trees would seem like a forest.
I miss how everything was a great adventure.
I miss trading cigarettes for dinner tickets. And I miss how the teachers would make a big deal over this.
I miss getting up early, and going out all day long without even having anything to eat or having a wash.
I miss the "smokers corner" at school.
I miss my dad.
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I don't miss: Social workers, getting arrested, police cells, court. Secure units, childrens homes, sleeping rough, running away.
I don't miss: Fighting, surviving, starving, freezing, no clean clothes, feeling humiliated.
I don't miss: Being covered in bruises, crying and not being heard, being treated like a slave.
I don't miss having no rights.
I don't miss being a child, I still am a child.
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We have existence