Edited sentence: Her father died when she was 11 years old and 3 weeks later her brother Sean abandoned her leaving her to care for their very ill mother, Jean.Her past has affected her personality and she can behave very badly at times, but she is a girl with a big heart that is broken time and time again.Jean was too ill to look after her daughter properly,so Stacey had to grow up very quickly.She can be very foolish at times, but she has had a very hard life and has spent most of it caring for her ill mother.She is very close to Sean, who is extremely protective of Stacey.Stacey appears to be tough, stuborn and bitchy, but underneath hides a lonley desperate girl reaching out for love.Stacey has had a hard life