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MABEL

You see, years ago, I didn't talk. I only said yes or no. Only because they used to just keep saying "shut up" all the time. I'm Mabel. I was taken from Mum when I was three weeks old because Mum was begging on the street. My grandfather didn't like the man she was going out with and said, you can't live here if you're going to marry this man. They said, well, you can't have a baby on the street.

The police took me away from Mum. And I was put in all these different homes. And Mum was put in Darenth Park. So I didn't see Mum again.

So I went to Bedford's home run by nuns off and on. And they said, sorry, so you can't stay here either. And then I went to St. Lawrence's. Because I went up to this place in town hall-- I think it was town hall-- to have a test to see how bad the learning disability is. And they said, you need care for the rest of your life. You need some sort of help for, you know. But I thought, how did they know that at that age?