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Tarot CourageTo help herself sleep, Cassie sometimes fantasises. She imagines a story where she is the star, with a new haircut, her ears pierced a second time (as her mother would never allow). She’s grown taller, her bra size has increased, her school skirt is shorter. She would step off the school bus after the school holidays. Heads would turn and the boys would wonder why they had never noticed her before. The fantasies calm her, she feels still and optimistic in her bed, thinking of the people she would smile at, the people she would snub. But she knows her thoughts are fanciful. It is a dream. A dream she can control because she is awake and aware. What she really needs, she knows, is not a new image, she needs courage.
She knows courage is the key to her future because her
