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Unfortunately I primarily associate it with a girl I knew in primary school, whose parents must have been struggling with something (poverty, addiction, mental health, any combination thereof...). She and her siblings were frequently late to school, often looked a bit underfed, were always a bit scruffy and/or dressed in the cheapest facsimile of the school uniform, had poor manners and boundaries, tended to steal small items (I remember she took one of my scrunchies and I was FURIOUS haha), and were often out and about in the evening when most kids our age were at home. We were friends, but not always easily so.

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The link between the name and a perpetual state of deprivation plus a tendency towards tempestuous friendships is pretty indelible for me.

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