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where I sat on his knee, he held a marble in one of his hands and I had to guess which hand it was in. A simple game I could play for hours and one I loved. Unfortunately, this was to be the beginning of many years of sexual abuse. I was 6 years old. As I entered my teens I became frustrated with school, I am bright academically but school wasn’t for me. My first Saturday job was at the age of 13, I loved the sense of freedom and earning money. I kept a job all through school and still left with good grades. But life was to change in a drastic way once again……. My parents split when I was 15 which came as a shock to me. Overnight our family home became an empty shell, my mum left taking my sister with her and I was to live with my dad. I didn’t understand mental health at the time and certainly wasn’t equipped to understand the breakdown of a marriage.