I was born in Canterbury in 1993, in a scummy hospital, to a family cobbled together. Mum, Dad, Mum's daughter Carmen and Dad's son Luc. I have always been a weird kid; although I like to think I have mellowed slightly in my weirdness over the years. For example, as a small kid I would spend hours standing over a doll pram, putting blanket over blanket over blanket over a doll and then taking them off again, only to put them on again. Some might say "OCD" but I hate self-diagnosing.
I'm a real book snob and am horribly disdainful of anything remotely "chick-lit". In fact, anything that hasn't been at least shortlisted for the Booker prize falls below my radar
This does mean I'm constantly nabbing books from my parents' bookshelf.
I'm long-term in love with somebody I've known since primary school. It's quite ridiculous, actually, but then it gives me something to go to school for.
On and off since about the age of eleven I have been bullied. But I believe I am a stronger, more principled person for it... if a little boring! As a young girl I bullied this boy, and since I have been in his shoes, I have tried to atone for this, such as by helping out the children in the years below me at school.
Mr Rochester is my lover, in a bookish kind of way.
I cannot be apart from him too long. But I have many bookish affairs, with Gaskell's Mr Thorton, Austen's Captain Wentworth, for example.
To travel is my passion and thus I want to up sticks and leave this claustrophobic Kentish town ASAP. I plan to volunteer in another continent, probably Asia, for a year before I head to university. I'm planning on doing this with someone from school. because I'm too much of a scaredy-cat to do it alone.
Well, there you go!
Lauren
Who on Earth is that stupid to do it? Well, you're better than them anyday.
Good luck with that
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