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Age: 19
Occupation: Student (Columbus - Literature)
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Born in a deeply religious family, Rebecca Cinders has felt suffocated by her parents' traditional values for as long as she could remember. Daily life was composed of rules she absolutely had to obey or receive the punishment for going against orders. 

For children with such constricted family homes such as these, school is usually a place of liberation. But Becca soon found out it could also be much worse than home. Having always been barred of anything remotely child-like throughout her infancy, she lacked any common grounds to properly connect with her peers. She was always this weird little shadow at the corner of the class, never opening her mouth, always doing whatever the teacher told her to.

Her classmates couldn't figure out how to deal with her so they didn't. And Rebecca felt horrible but she didn't do anything to change their perception of her. She would find out, much later on, that being ignored was the least of her worries.

It's no longer clear who started it or even how the step from being ignored to being bullied was taken. However, when it was, the escalation from simple teasing to getting beaten and forced to do gross things was quick and merciless. Her parents only noticed when her grades started to be affected, yet even when they changed her to a different school the bullying always seemed to follow with her in some way, shape or form. Wasn't long before her parents started blaming it on her, before the teachers stopped taking her side and looking at her like she was just another troublesome student...

Rebecca felt worthless.

She was worthless. The only thing she had going for her were her grades and those did nothing to stop the wounds from appearing. Fighting back wasn't even an option, any notion that she could actually stand up for herself had long disappeared under her family's thumbs.

Midst such darkness, only one light kept her going.

Becca was never allowed a computer outside working for school projects but she did have a phone. One she could use to use steal internet from her neighbors and talk with the friend that had grown precious to her throughout the years.

Presently, she's a literature student at Columbus University, living by herself in a nearby apartment paid and regularly visited by her parents. Picking this particular university was a move she decided on the basis that she has no family or acquaintances in New York. Even with her parents constant visits and phone calls, could this be her chance to finally grow happy or will the darkness stalk her into adulthood as well?

(Can you feel the angst?)
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