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father had meantime remarried; he didn’t visit the orphanage until his daughter was 13.

“Your childhood sets you up for life,” she maintains.

“All children want is someone to put their arm round them. And I did miss my mother. I craved her. Even though she left us behind, she had loved us all so much and her leaving us left an indelible mark, so much so that none of the Sisters had a chance with me.

“One or two of them tried to be loving but I shrugged them off because I felt disloyal to my mother.”

Not all of the Sisters were loving. Shirely believes there was abuse. “There was one Sister that I think got sacked because of me,” she recalls grimly.

“There was a system in place at the home if you were very lonely you could take your mattress and sleep in Sister’s bedroom. I was sleeping on the floor one night when one Sister did something to me and I didn’t like it, so much that I wet the bed in anger.

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