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Last updated: 09 January 2008

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Home

This is my status at the moment. I'm parking my life somewhere temporary. I don't feel I'm parking in the right place.

When I totally can be understood, and when I totally feel accepted by all around, that's my home.

Love

I think you should be able to look though the walls, through somebody's heart. You have to be able to see the world, not in your own eye really, but through that person's heart. That is almost impossible probably, but when you try to see the world through their heart, that's love I think.

Happiness

I like travelling. At the same time I want to be settle so much. It's quite contradictory. But, whenever I see the suitcase, I feel so excited. With that excitement there's something - this is going to be a new start, and I clean up all my past, and something's fresh. It's something I love and enjoy, that makes me feel happy.

Treasure

When I was about six or seven, this book was just so amazing. I couldn't read it much. In the beginning my mum read it, but the book captured my childhood emotions, and the bond between my mum and me. Yes, this is my treasure I want to always take with me.

From very early on, I was obsessed with writing all the time. I'm desperate to try to express what I'm thinking really. When I write it down it didn't explain it properly in my diary either, so sometimes I scribble, or tear the paper, or draw pictures in the diary.

About ten years later when I was packing all my stuff, I saw the diaries, and I realised they're so precious. It's my own history really.

Safe

When I first moved in to my new house, everybody said "you have to make sure you're really safe", and they put all kind of safety chains on the door. People often think when your front door is locked properly then you are safe, but actually that doesn't make me feel really safe.

My real safety is the front door of my emotions, my inside. Sometimes you feel safe, but sometimes everything's suddenly not true, and it suddenly comes. Like - I don't know who I am anymore, and all these questions make me feel totally unsafe and I feel lost. I don't feel safe when I don't know what I am doing properly.


This story was told as part of BBC Wales' charity promotion for winter 2008. Find out more about Welsh Women's Aid.

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