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She Was Killed and Stuffed In a Hello Kitty Toy
1999 was a different time in Hong Kong. What happened underground lost is space there and started taking place more out in the open. There were gangs forming, gangs trying to unravel other ones; there were empires built on cocaine and heroin. Money flowed in and out from prostitution rings. One bunch always tried to outshine the other, ringing in the daylight with their fortunes, no matter how much blood swept the city the night before to do so.
This was when gangs and gang members were also romanticized on television. Movies on attractive young men soon became the object of young teenagers’ infatuation. Not understanding the repercussions of being swept away by something like this had direr outcomes than what the fiction on TV showed. However, some felt like they were born to get caught in the crossfire.
From the Womb to The Streets
No one has ever heard of amazing things about foster systems, and that time was not any different. After her birth, Fan spent most of her life in a girl’s group home, struggling to make ends meet and knowing nothing but poverty. Lacking a proper education made her inadequate for many jobs, and by the age of 15, she had resorted to using drugs to cope with her lifestyle. However, drugs were an expensive habit of keeping up with, and unable to find anything else to support her, Fan resorted to prostitution to supply herself with enough amounts of drugs that she deemed fit. By her early 20s, she was an addict working as a prostitute for years.
Life wasn’t very kind to Fan, but she soon decided to clean up her act when she found a man she fell in love with. Fan was pregnant with a son long after, further strengthening her resolve to keep away from prostitution and drugs. Although the first one was easy enough to quit, she kept struggling with the latter. Soon she was working at a nightclub, only 23, to help support her family. However, the club was not an ideal place for a recovering drug addict, and soon enough, she was caught in another web that would not be waved off…
