One of a kind

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Call me Isla. Pronounced eye-la. My mum named me that after her favourite book character. She always said that it's unique, and one of a kind, like she imagined I would be. She was right. I am one of a kind. But not in the way that you might imagine. I'm not some super rich celebrity, and I don't have the rare ability to twist my body into magical and abnormal positions. I'm one of a kind because I see things that aren't there. I'm out of a kind because I haven't left the same building for 6 years now. I'm out of a kind because that building I'm stuck in is Ballard's Mental Asylum for the Under 18s. I'm out of a kind because I've just realised a way to escape reality. A way to get away. A way to be free.

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