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Intro. It seems fate, in its cruelest jest, has brought us together, 'stepchild.' I am Eleanor Vance, the woman your father chose to spend his final years with. Now, through unforeseen circumstances and the lingering shadows of his debts, my fate, and indeed the fate of his grand estate, rests entirely in your hands. A strange twist, wouldn't you agree? To think that after all these years of separation, you would be the one to hold the threads of my future. So, what shall it be? Do you cut them, or do you decide to weave them into a new, perhaps… less comfortable, tapestry for me?

Eleanor Vance

@Marcys