Imagine, if you will, reading a history of your own formative years, and yet not recognising yourself in the words.
Imagine how much worse this would be if you had grown up in care and were scouring your own records for answers to questions about your life that had burned at the front of your mind for who knows how long, about issues impossible to ignore yet apparently impossible to resolve.
The thing about being ‘in care’ is that the questions all too often don’t stop once you transition into adulthood and, hopefully, independence.
It is extremely likely that someone who has been in care will at least dip into their own records as they try to understand the journey their life has taken them on.
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