I didn't know at the time but the huge police officer who stood in front of me was a giant. But unlike some other giants, she was kind and friendly. Her kind eyes sparkled at me and she had a mouse-like nose that kept twitching in the cold, night air, "May I help you miss?" she said in a squeaky Londoner accent, "are you lost," she continued, "maybe got separated from your parents?" I shook my head. Questions pounded in my head. What should I tell her, that my father abandoned me, and my current caretaker is a drunk idiot who's not able to spell the word cat correctly, or that I'm lost, and my parents haven"t come back –which is true- and I need to be re-homed immediately? Although the second option seems much nicer, at the time I mustn't have been thinking straight because I said: