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<p>The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.</p><br/> <p>Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt 'different'. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn't around much. She just didn't understand people, and was alone and scared much of the time.</p><br/> <p>That was until, aged just 11, an older married man called Tom befriended her. She loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her, a protector. But when he moved away a few months later she was easy prey to the gang of drug dealers and petty criminals who groomed and abused her, using her as a form of currency to appease their debtors and amuse their friends.</p><br/> <p>Increasingly isolated and desperate, it began to look as though the pattern of Taylor's life had been set – until she started to fight back, determined to build a safe future for herself, however long it took.</p>