Her story begins not with blood, but with abandonment: a father imprisoned for unspeakable crimes, a mother who disappeared, grandparents who were supposed to save her and instead shattered her further. Violence and violation became the language of her childhood; survival, the only lesson she truly learned. By her teens she was pregnant, homeless, trading her body to eat and numbing herself with alcohol and rage.
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