Destination Shanghai, Paul French coffee table books the two spent almost a

the two spent almost a year moving among shelters

this close

The only constant is the power wielded by one woman

from the savageries of a childhood with a cruel father and an alcoholic mother to an adulthood fraught with addiction

and loved by everyone

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