a life of lavish control, a gilded ca
ove shattered his carefully constructed world, un
erenity Pines, a so-called "wellness retr
hydrotherapy" and "quiet rooms" designed to break me down, pie
ng doll molded to resemble Lydia, his deceased coll
strange, unexpected peace; with nothing le
a forgotten boy from my past and fi
defiance, I ran, knowing that my freedom