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Please do not suffer in silence. Carlaite's world shattered in an instant when she uncovered a truth that had been buried for over two decades.

Her entire identity was a lie. For years she had lived as a woman named

Neshdra Nance, believing she knew who she was, where she came from, and the family that raised her.

But a annoying feeling of uncertainty had that raised her. But a gnawing feeling of uncertainty had always

haunted her, a shadow of doubt that led her to dig deeper into her past. One day,

Carlina discovered something that no one could have prepared her for.

She was Karlina White, a baby that had been abducted from a Harlem hospital in 1987.

Stolen from her mother's arms, she was raised by the woman who had taken her, a woman she had called

mom all of her life. The revelation left her devastated, leaving her grappling with an identity that was never truly hers.

Carlina ultimately confronted the reality that the family she had always known was built on a foundation of deception.

The woman who had raised her was not her mother.

Her real parents were strangers,

people who had spent years searching for their stolen child,

never giving up hope.

Carlina's heart ached as she imagined the pain her biological parents must have endured, that birthdays missed, the

milestones lost a time, the endless prayers whispered in the dark.

Finally, after years of living with a stolen identity,

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