[post_page_title]Losing her parents[/post_page_title]
Her adoptive mother was diagnosed with cancer and passed away around the time Connie was five. After this, her adoptive father re-married a woman who was abusive toward her. Then, by her teenage years, she also lost her adoptive father due to a heart condition.
Her life had taken a brutal turn and the only hope she had left was that every year for her birthday, she would wish that she could meet her birth mother and get away from everything. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem like this would ever happen.

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