Noi, our 13 year-old, ran off last night.
It was not completely unexpected. She came to us as street-wise, with tattoos on her upper and lower back and her breasts, pierced tongue and a scar by her left eyebrow where a pin was ripped out. Last night she asked to use our phone to call her mom, then in tears, told me she missed her mom and wanted to go see her. Tonight
Her mother is at least 1/2 hour away, and for me to run around Bangkok alone with a 13 year-old Thai girl is asking for big trouble.
I sat down with her and listened to more of her story. She's tried everything--the sex, the drugs, the drinking, the partying. At 12 she was raped.
She said she didn't do all those things because of peer pressure--she was just looking for fun.
Her parents lived in a slum, and in order to put her in a nicer home, sent her to an aunt. But the aunt's sister was a drunk, and Noi's uncle wasn't nice to her either. She did what most her age would do--went out looking for safety and significance wherever she could find it.
Her 22 year-old boyfriend went back to his old girlfriend, so she finally decided to come here.
As I always do with the women we reach, I told her again that I loved her and why. Not because she's a project that we want to make into a good person, or because we're just such awesomely righteous people, but because she is precious, because God made her that way.
She ran off last night while Judy and I were out at the grocery store.
She'll be back.
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