Watching him walk away broke my heart

I have just arrived home after a normal Wednesday night working in prevention on the streets. Prevention work is one of my favourite activities and I usually leave feeling uplifted and joyful. However, tonight was different, and I want to share with you why. The prevention team and I got ready at the centre as normal, preparing the games and colouring activity. Tonight we were celebrating ‘the day of the child,’ so we had a giant Micky Mouse piñata with …

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Castle on a hill

There is a scene in the famous play, ‘Les Misérables,’ where a little girl named Cosette is singing and dreaming about a castle on a cloud. At this point in the story she is living with a couple who own a pub and are treating her very poorly. She escapes to her ‘special place’ and dreams, “There is a castle on a cloud,I like to go there in my sleep,Aren’t any floors for me to sweep,Not in my castle on …

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