Freedom means having nothing left to lose. She’d gotten the phrase off a story she’d read over the internet when she was fifteen, the words had stuck in her head like a broken record played on repeat, and as soon as she’d been able to sneak past her straight-laced parents’ backs, she’d gotten them tattooed on her arm. Not that she knew what a record sounded like, of course, but the boyfriend had said a while back that he’d let her listen to one some day, and she’d simply smiled, nodded, and turned up the sound of the radio, allowing the throbbing beat of its bass to drown out the noise of her thoughts. “Some day” was probably never going to come. She had never really had a relationship lasting longer than three weeks, and this boy she’d been seeing was nearing his expiry date. And then it would be time again; time to dye her hair, change her name, and transplant herself into a different area, different life, and to adopt a different personality to become a different her. Reinventing herself, that was what she called it, and while most people saw it at a once-in-a-lifetime event her lack [...]
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