A Living Lie
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Ongoing5m
Last published Tue, Jul 24, 2012
After the lost of Annabelle Brown, Caroline has been a walking mess. Her feelings had become numb and her heart cold. Turning to drugs certainly wasn't the answer. But Caroline did them. She knows that now as she walks the cold streets alone with a client's fetus in her stomach. How else was she supposed to get money? Her husband got fed up with her depressing air and drug addiction; he left her. Turning to prostitution certainly wasn't the answer, but Caroline did. All her mistakes are piling up. she can't raise or love this baby. Nor does she want to. Adoption seems like the best solution. But what happens when eighteen years later her past catches up with her?
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