I don’t care if they’re not planning to hurt you, you don’t humiliate people like that. Especially not you, though ’course that’s why, you’re young and vulnerable and they think no one’s going to stand up for you. Well, they’re wrong there. And I’m sorry, Silvie. I’m sorry they thought they could ask you. She put her arm round me. I didn’t cry. I rested my head on her shoulder, breathed her in. Stay with me, OK, she said, just stay near me and I won’t let them do anything, I promise. She stroked my hair. Don’t, I said, it’s filthy, I probably smell. You don’t smell, she said, anyway, everyone
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