Discretion is advice.

This is a minute-mour.

This is the early 2000s. The early 2000s were a time of great change. The dark night was in cinemas. The Blackberry

Storm became the new popular mobile phone to have, and yet in Boardman, Florida, a tale

as oldest time was playing out yet again.

In November of that year, a man named Joshua Damien Fulgum got down on one knee,

and he proposed to his girlfriend, Amelia Lilly Carr.

But what they shared was far from a dreamy relationship that had just reached an absolute

romantic height. Joshua and Amelia were

the type of couple who were on again, off again. But that didn't stop Amelia from saying yes to the

man that she wanted to become her third husband. Amelia was about 25 years old when Joshua

proposed to her, and by then she'd already lived

a very colorful life. There were surely some good mixed in there, but in Amelia's past,

there was also a whole lot of bad. The conditions in her childhood home were notably unstable

and neglectful, and just how bad things actually were came to light when Amelia was

only 15. It happened one day in school when Amelia approached her teacher and said that she

was being sexually abused by her own father. Her teacher took Amelia's claims very seriously

and reported the abuse to authorities, who, in turn, began

investigating and found evidence to suggest that Amelia was not only being sexually abused by her

father, but by her grandfather as well. This could have been the turning point in Amelia's life,

and she could have been removed from a home where she was experiencing terrible

abuse. But Amelia was only 15, and when the investigation began to get serious, Amelia withdrew her statement.

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