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My life: Sarah Baker, 18, Cardiff

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When I was in year seven, I was picked on for having ginger hair. When I started year eight, I dyed my hair black, and had black nails, and I got picked on even worse. By year 10 even the younger pupils were picking on me. I started self- harming when I was 13.

I never had a happy home, and I got kicked out four days before my 16thbirthday. I lived on the streets for about a month.

My life changed when I met my friend John Bond. He's been there for meever since. He helped me on my film, The One. I saw a poster at theGrassroots project asking if anyone wanted to make a film. They helpedme turn my poetry into a film about bullying. Some of it was painful torecreate - there's a scene where the bully spits in my book, whichhappened. But when I was being filmed sitting alone in my room, Ithought, I'm not this person anymore, I'm happy, and have new friends.-Sarah wrote and directed The One, which won the top award at the Turn onthe Rights Film Festival, organised by Save the Children and Cardiff'schildren and young people partnership.- Do you know a child or young person with a story to tell? Call CathyWallace on 020 8267 4722, email cathy.wallace@haymarket.com.

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