AT the age of five, Jade was frequently left alone to fend for herself while her heroin-addict mother disappeared for days at a time.
Three decades later, after being placed in a secure home with adoptive parents, she is now a settled mother-of-two. However, she still has mixed feelings about being taken away from her own mother, despite the neglect she suffered at an early age.
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