Lydia's Living Doll

a life of lavish control, a gilded ca

ove shattered his carefully constructed world, un

erenity Pines, a so-called "wellness retr

hydrotherapy" and "quiet rooms" designed to break me down, pie

ng doll molded to resemble Lydia, his deceased coll

strange, unexpected peace; with nothing le

a forgotten boy from my past and fi

defiance, I ran, knowing that my freedom