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You were brought up in Minneapolis, USA, by a mother whose idea of parenting was giving you ten dollars to "take a ride". So she could party with her lowlife friends. She believed in freedom only because responsibility wasn't part of her lexicon. You had to fend for yourself on the streets as a result.

This stopped being fun when your mom, Carol Brewster, was incarcerated. Drug offences had landed her in the Minnesota Correctional Facility. This meant you had nowhere to go until your aunt, Sophie, stepped in.

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Sophie's' ranch house.