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Meet Hanna

Well, fine then. How does this sound:

I am 24 years old. I grew up in Venezuela, although my mother was Danish. When I was 8 years old, a child welfare worker discovered I'd been abused by my stepfather and placed me in a black foster home. (Oh wait, sorry, that's Margaret Jones.) When I was 18, to support myself, I took to modeling. There were nights when I wore mink and drank Courvoisier to my heart's content and other nights when I slept in a cardboard box and called the city rats my friends. I am now an aspiring singer, in a style you could call Reggaeton/Folk. I like sweet tarts, and golden monkeys.