The Problem with Being Human
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  • Reads 19
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  • Parts 1
  • Time <5 mins
Ongoing, First published Jul 02, 2016
Ria Small is a con-woman. She scams people for a living. Then she sees the perfect scam, an old ex- business man, who needs someone to share a fortune with, after his two-year-old daughter was stolen from his arms roughly twenty years ago. She would be the same age as the child, all she has to do is convince the man she has been safe all these years and she will get rich easily. But the problem with being human is that you get attached to people too quickly, and soon she is convinced he is the father she never had...
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