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My name's amelia. I'm 44. I come from a really poor background. My parents died when I was just five. And since I didn't have any other family, I grew up in the care system. Just bouncing around from one foster home to another. My entire childhood was spent wearing stained, second-hand clothes from charity shops. I never had a single thing of my own. Nothing I could truly call mine. I didn't have a clue what a warm, loving home felt like. I never even had my own birthday cake. When I married Tom, I was naive enough to think my loneliness was finally over. I genuinely thought I’d finally get a proper family. A big table where we could all sit down together. People who would actually love and accept me. But I couldn't have been more wrong. We lived with Tom’s parents, Susan and Dave. Along with our seven-year-old daughter, Chloe. All crammed into a stuffy two-bed council flat in Barking, East London. The walls were paper-thin. And the whole place constantly reeked of cheap fags and stale cabbage. They shoved us in the smallest, darkest box room. It was honestly more of a cupboard than a bedroom. From day one, they made my life an absolute living hell. They looked down their noses at me. They constantly humiliated me. Always throwing it in my face that I was a penniless nobody who only brought grief to their son. Every single morning, I'd wake up to their loud, disapproving sighs. If I used a drop too much washing-up liquid, Susan would start screaming the place down. They never let me forget that I came into this marriage with nothing but a bin bag full of rags. And that if they hadn’t taken me in out of pity, I’d have starved on the streets ages ago. They dumped every single household chore on me. Treating me like some unpaid servant. I had to cook for the whole lot of them. Clean the flat. And scrub the greasy cooker while they just sat there watching the telly. Then, after an exhausting 12-hour shift, I had to drag myself up three flights of stairs. Because the lif
