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- Dec 12, 2022
As has been said before, it sounds like a case of a dysfunctional family (though this can happen even with functional ones) and/or some other issue (maybe school-related?). Speaking as a Norferner... Northern England has MANY, MANY issues, especially towns like Preston, so it's not surprising that the individual in question turned to the internet and got sucked in. (For you Yankees, think of the shittiest Rust Belt locales you can think of, that would basically be the closest equivalent.)
Everything sucks here.
I think in American terms, she'd be called Trailer Trash, just minus the trailer. No dad, single mom, men in and out of the house, bad part of town; when you're that age, the only real escape is doing dumb shit with the local neighborhood rowdies, or the Internet. She chose the latter.@Sir Baz the Intolerant 's theory about an absentee father plus @Charred Dinosaur claiming she had a boyfriend near up until her death point to her making poor life choices in regards to partners, at the very least.