diamond in the rough
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Life is supposed to b full of love light and everything i've never known. my momma died during birthing me and my daddy was shot during a card game. By the age of eight i bounced around so many orphanages i done lost count. By the time i was eighteen i ran away to a near by boom town were i met Madame Mackerady on a warm September night she found me offered me a place to stay and the closest thing i ever had to a family plus possibly a job. I loved her, she was the closest thing i ever had to a momma. Till one day i watched a drunkard shoot her as she tried to defend her girls. 20 years later it still brings tears to my eyes. I was sure i was doomed to a life of prostitution forever until i met a man that i call "my angle" he raised me up from perdition and set me higher then i ever thought possible. My name is Darla and this is my story.....
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