Baby Doe isn’t her real name, but it’s what l call her so nobody gets to think she was a real person, even though she very much was and nobody gets all bothered about confidentiality.

She was born to a young mom with more problems than most people have hair on their heads, not the least of which were mental health “issues” and addictions to just about any sort of street drug you can imagine, as long as they were really bad for you and even worse for a baby you never expected to get from whoring for drugs even though you were not using any sort of birth control because what the hell, a girl needs to work and birth control costs money and you get more money from bareback and nobody wants to use a condom anyway. You know?