A young girl, barely 19, eyes clouded with the pain of someone who had seen too much

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Bewildered and terrified after her bridegroom put a pistol to his head and pulled the trigger, young Marin was faced with two options: She could return to her stifling parents in Scotland, and the sheltered existence she once knew, or take a chance and make a new life for herself

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She refused to go running home in defeat.