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Crimson Petals: Vlad the Impaler's Gentle Echoes
This book is written by Someone who has been protected and visited by Vlad the Impaler since age 2. I am that Someone. My name is Amy called Emmy by My immigrant GrandFather or Katha by My older immigrant relatives. What I write is the…
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…My father’s machinations, his constant need to control and dictate, had ensured that even this return was not a homecoming, but another form of confinement. My parents, in their infinite capacity for self-destruction and their utter disregard for my well-being, decreed that I would be sent to an all-girls school. It was not my choice. It was not my desire. It was another gilded cage, another attempt to silence the echoes of their own failures by locking away the one person who bore witness to their ruin. The gates of the school loomed, imposing and unwelcoming, a stark symbol of a future I hadn't chosen, a path laid out by hands that seemed determined to crush me.