Name: Sarah O’Rourke
D.O.B: 17/04/93
Lives: Manchester, England
Ethnicity: White
Hair: Naturally brown, but can look black or red depending on the lighting
Eyes: Green/hazel
Relationship status: Single

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Generally

I was born on the 17th April 1993 at 00:03 in Tameside General Hospital. My parents named me Sarah O’Rourke, much to my father’s dislike; he wanted me to be named after him. If he had his way I would be named Christine, thankfully they settled on another name. I’m not sure who I was named after; I think my mum just liked my name, which means ‘Princess’ in Hebrew, but I think it makes me sound like a snotty business woman with a bob. When I was younger (about 6 or 7) I used to be obsessed with the film ‘The Little Princess’ as the lead character was named Sarah.

There has never been a time in my life when I haven’t been obsessed with one thing or another. I always need a favourite this or a favourite that to feel happy. I’m not sure why that is– it’s just a part of who I am. When I look back at my life when I was younger, there always seems to be a dark air about it. I was quite a nervous child and I wasn’t very sociable until I made friends with a girl named Ellis when I was 6 or 7 and she brought me out of my shell.

Another part of my life is music. When I was younger I used to listen to pop, my favourite band when I was five was the Spice Girls. I always used to play the Spice Girls with my older cousin, Sian. She always wanted to be ‘Sporty Spice’ and I always wanted to be ‘Baby Spice’, despite looking nothing like Emma Bunton. As I became older, I began to like rockier music, such as Avril Lavigne, Busted, Simple Plan and Good Charlotte. Yeah, not exactly death metal, is it? But when you’re ten years old, Busted sounds pretty heavy… Now I like a wide array of bands, ranging from Dashboard Confessional to Motion City Soundtrack. I like most types of music, so long as their lyrics don’t have the words ‘I wanna fuck you’ in them. However I tend to like more indie and pop-punk stuff. Well, you can see for yourself by checking out my last.fm profile here.

In terms of what I want to do with my life, I am well focused. I hardly live in the best place imaginable but this has made me determined to do something worthwhile with my life.
My mother went to Cambridge University to study history. She was very talented but when she met my father she let her ambitions go and that is the reason why I am so adamant that I won’t make the same mistake. I know I can go far in life but recently I’m not sure how far I actually want to go. I want to do something worthwhile and make a name for myself but my main ambition is just to be happy and I’m not entirely sure whether a full time career will make me happy. I have been contemplating a career in journalism which I think I will find more enjoyable.

I find that most of the time I can be quite a nice person but at times something will come over me and I’ll just snap and cut up the first person who annoys me… and it doesn’t exactly take much to annoy me. I think that other people would find my personality to be quite over-bearing but I can’t help being the way I am.

I think that I’m quite good at reading other people’s emotions and I can usually tell when someone’s lying. I have been through a whole array of screwed up emotions in my long-long life of fourteen years and I can usually apply an emotion I’ve had before and the way that I acted to other people. This, of course, doesn’t apply to everyone. There are some people who I can just never read, ever. However these people are far and few between, so don’t think that you’re exempt!

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