Good evening, and welcome to Nighty Night with Rabia Chathry, bedtime stories to keep you

awake.

I'm DJ Lubel, the shows producer.

Tonight's tale is about a woman starving for a change in her life, who ultimately bites

off more than she can chew.

Please enjoy undying hunger.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who succumbed to the lie that nothing was more valuable

than beauty and youth.

The onset of menopause and the symptoms that came with it left Tania Donald desperate

to find a way to turn back the clock on her body.

So when the invitation to be a special guest at a new health resort came with just such

a promise, she left her life behind and said yes.

Moss Mary Bluffs welcomed Tania Donald with a long, winding drive.

Tall pines rose up on both sides of the drive and cast heavy shadows over the road.

The limousine crunched slowly over the gravel, inching forward in the shade, despite the

bright blue of the otherwise cloudless day.

The car surfaced from the trees to a mansion of sharp angles that appeared to jut up from

the sandy scrub of a cliff.

Free of the pines, the enormous house shown relentlessly in the sun.

A white, so blinding, she could barely look at it straight on.

And in the dead center of the front facade stood enormous double doors the color of cherries,

like a screaming mouth at the entrance of the three-story manor.

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