NORTH TORONTO’S LISA MARCOS speaks in weighty sentences, and not just for a former model, from whom one might expect simplerthan-Styrofoam sound bites. The female lead of the CTV summer series The Listener meets me for coffee near her Yonge and Eglinton home, and as she recounts her lifestory — by turns shocking, sad and triumphant — her solemnity and maturity say it all: the young woman sitting opposite has been through enough to fill her 27 years many times over.

At the tender age of 13, when most girls begin experimenting with makeup, separating boys from cooties and taking an interest in their appearance, Marcos was in Milan, Japan, Spain, Germany and beyond, posing for Vogue and starring in commercials as an international model — and all of it without a parent in sight.

Every young girl’s dream come true, right?

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