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become obsessed with her, seduces and then brutally rapes her. To get her away from Ram, her father's mistress, Anabel (a mother figure to the girl), sends her to the
University of California at Santa Cruz, where she forms what will be a lifelong friendship with Kiki Kavanaugh, an auto industry heiress from Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Because of Daisy's total estrangement from Ram, who is a trustee of her inheritance, she neglects to read his letters regarding her stock portfolio at a crucial moment and thus loses everything her father left her. As a result, she is forced to drop out of college and go to work. She paints portraits of rich, horse-mad people's children on ponies in order to pay Dani's bills and also works in a demanding job at a production company that makes television commercials.
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for a line of perfume and makeup, and starring in the commercials to promote them, for which she insists upon and is paid $ 1M. She meets
Patrick Shannon, the CEO of the company who creates the Princess Daisy line of cosmetics and perfume, and they fall in love. Ram, who learns of their relationship, is enraged and goes to a tabloid and reveals the secret existence of Danielle to ruin Daisy. He then commits suicide in despair. Through these events, Daisy learns to trust Shannon, comes to terms with her sister's disability, and makes peace with the life she has been given.
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Francesca recovers from her depression, he lies to her, telling her that the second-born twin died soon after birth. She discovers the truth and flees with both infants to California, where she is helped by her former agent and his wife. For several years, she lives a secluded life in Carmel and grants Stash short visits with Daisy.
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Danielle, and cannot even bring himself to name her, leaving the doctor to name her after
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