We Come Apart

A story, told in free-verse, about two teens who meet in a program for young offenders, both of them there for petty shoplifting. Nicu is a Roma (gypsy) from Romania. His family is in North London to earn money for his arranged marriage, to happen in several months. He is only 15, and even though

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he knows it is the culture of his people, he does not want to get married. Jess lives with her mother and her violent stepfather. Tormented, she spends as much time as possible out of the house, and lives in fear when she is home. In a short time, the two become friends and start to rely on each other, but Jess's former friends aren't having Nicu as part of their life.

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