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Layla Elizabeth Jane McLeod (23)

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Frederick Vincent McLeod (3)

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I was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada as a Trust Fund baby. Amazing, right? I hated every second of it. Hopped a plane to London a couple days after my eighteenth birthday and when my parents found me a few weeks later in a youth hostel they were livid. Insisted I come home, I refused. So, they bought me an apartment ('flat') there. I got pregnant, one night stand, about about a year after I arrived and decided to go through with the pregnancy. I told the Father of course, but he wanted nothing to do with me. So I raised Freddie with my parents money.

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I don't have a 'real' job, Dad wants me to take over his company and I've flat out refused, I write for a few travel magazines. It's not always steady but I get to go to interesting places and write about them, which I love doing, so I find it very rewarding. The island is ruddy gorgeous, though I'm not one for sandy beaches 24/7, very picturesque.

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I went to visit my Grand-Dad up in San Fran and, after, took Freddie down to Disney, which he seemed to enjoy. We were heading to Sydney so I could write an article about Adelaide and the tourist-y things there before heading down to New Zealand, obviously we didn't make it.

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I'm afraid I'm not very useful in the grand scheme of things, much as I'm resourceful and, though I hate to brag, a fairly good cook, I'm also very used to living the way I like and doing what I want to do. So, I can be very stubborn and temperamental when that doesn't happen. I'm also fairly opinionated and put myself and Freddie before a lot of things. But I can be diplomatic when it suits me or when a situation is dire and I've been told I'm rather fair in my judgment.