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In today's story, Ashley Wallace was 19 years old when she woke up in the hospital on September 14, 2007.

After being poisoned and almost dying, misfortune seemed to follow the young woman.

When Ashley was just 11, her father, Michael Wallace, died of a suspected heart attack.

Just five years later, her stepfather, David Castor, took his own life.

And now she herself has just been 10 minutes away from dying.

But what she did not yet know was that behind everything was her own mother,

Stacey Castor, the Black Widow.

So. Stacey Ruth Kaster was born on July 24, 1967, and Clay, New York.

She met her first husband, Michael Wallace, when she was just 17 years old.

The two got along very well, and Stacey felt like she had found the one. She told everybody around her town how she was just 17 years old. The two got along very well, and Stacey felt like she had found the one.

She told everybody around her town how she was in love and that Michael was larger than life.

Three years later, in 1988, the couple was married and had their first daughter, Ashley.

Her little sister, Bree, was born in 1991.

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