Chapter 2It was a night of drama and tears. I learned things about Hailey I’d never known and not just about her relationship with Kelly, but the abusive assaults of her own father. He’d never been charged with s****l assault but in my opinion he should have been jailed along with his wife who’d let it go on without saying a word until it became obvious to all. The only reason she hadn’t been made a ward of the state was because her social worker was one of the new breed breathing new life into a broken system of institutionalised incarceration. “Alan was as gay as they come but he really straightened me out, he put me in touch with tutors to bring my grades back up and wrote me the reference that helped me get into nursing college. Mum settled down but things were never the same afterwar

