Healing the Temple of the Soul

Cynthia Stevens hugs herself as she stands in front of the girl's bathroom mirror at her high school. She wears her father's blue cardigan sweater and its warmth comforts her. Over her thickening blonde hair sits a Blue Jays baseball cap her older brother Chad had given her after his last visit to The Valley Stream Home where she stayed for more than six months. On her left wrist dangles her little sister Faye's gold bracelet. For a long moment she stares into the school's mirror, no longer afraid to face herself. There are still dark bags under her blue eyes and her cheeks--though fuller--still look too shallow. Her father, brother and sister are going to help her continue healing, but without Dr. Lyndon and the Girls' Gang she doubts she would still be alive today.The gaunt reflection that stares back at her reminds her how it all started three years ago in Grade Nine after gym class...