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In Oedipus Rex, the Greek tragedy written by Sophocles,

Oedipus unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother, Jakosta.

It is a story of fate, of twisted love, and of a doomed destiny that no one could escape.

The horror of it was not just the violence, it was the inevitability.

No matter what Oedipus did, he was trapped in a prophecy he never saw coming.

Now, fast forward a few thousand years to another doomed mother and son, Barbara and

Anthony Baceland.

But this was no myth.

This was real life.

Barbara Baclin was a wealthy socialite,

a woman who seemingly had everything,

beauty, status, money.

But what she wanted more than anything was control.

And the person she fixated on the most,

her only son, Antony. Unlike Jakosta, Barbara was not a

victim of fate. She created her own. She groomed her son, manipulated him, molded him into something

unnatural. The control became an obsession, and the obsession

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