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CompletedBecause I Once Saw the Light
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- English
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- Pineapple Lover
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- 9
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After her parents’ divorce, Tiana once stayed with their indebted father while younger sister Tamara chose their mother. His later financial improvement and affection contrasted with Tamara’s neglect and death.
Given another chance, Tamara eagerly chooses him, leaving Tiana the journey to their mother’s new home. She does not know that his earlier transformation depended on Tiana’s exhausting repayments and a serious illness, rather than an effortless change of fortune.
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