The Criminal's Daughter
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Of all these things that have made me the Marlena I am today, I have become an influence in so many people's lives and I do my best to steer people onto the right path. I endured being a criminal's daughter and surviving, literally with my sanity intact, when most would have lost their minds. I have survived through being abused by so many. It wasn't an easy life for me, it was very hard growing up with a dad that was considered a small town mafia type. The things I seen would shock you. I hear all the time, "how crazy it is that I did something with my life and that I'm not insane or in jail, is a miracle".
Of everything I went through, the things I seen and endured haven't stopped me from being a good person, serving my country and giving back. I never gave up, even though so many times no one would've blamed me if I did.
My motto, "Don't let the product of your upbringing or your family decide your future". You can be anything you want to be with hard work, lots of prayers and faith in God, to get you through it all unscathed.
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There is a reason the dream life is but a dream. And for Marlena Megara Murphe, it is a nightmare she can't wake from. Forced to forever perform for men she doesn't love, wear a crown she doesn't want, constantly stared at with no privacy... All of those things constitute the price of beauty. But can she break out of her cage? Whose help will she need? And can she pay them back without using herself as payment? The life of the most perfect, coveted man is riddled with negativity. Being well-connected, rich and powerful isn't exactly easy, especially getting there. Forced to be a role model without a proper one for himself, he lives an aimless, stiff life. Stalkers in every corner, brutalized into a shell of himself, hollowed out by the man he should've looked up to. What to do other than control what he couldn't, what he was trained to? Michelangelo Leonardo Orleans suffers for the many things he possesses, with no identity for himself other than the golden eyes beyond which none see. Does anyone new love him for who he is, or what he has? He doesn't know. Could anyone love him, of all people? He didn't think so. The life of the perfect, the coveted is difficult. But adding love and illegality in the equation blows things out of proportion. How do you love someone's entire being when no one did the same for you? You probably can't, but just maybe you can. But when they do find a way, life finds another to make it difficult, when their entire lives are upended and invalidated. What to do but fight for meaning? What to do but carve out meaning of your own? Will they even be able to pull through? Will it get too tiring, too hard to keep going? Or will they succeed and make the impossible possible?
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