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Bayveen O'Connell

CULTURE, MEMOIRMarch 5, 2018

The Real Girl

By Bayveen O'Connell

I was the tiny child taken straight to hospital in Dublin. I was the tiny child with drugs, concentrated rays, no hair, enduring the…

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