Defiance

Julia grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, the first child of a privileged family who spent their days yachting, entertaining or traveling, always with the best of the best. When she returned from her studies in Paris, she decided she wanted nothing to do with Greenwich, but was off to travel the world and against her mother's wishes, she did just that and defiantly left it all behind. She lived in Kabul, Munich, Belgium, and Milan, and eventually lost everything. She returned to the...
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Julia grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, the first child of a privileged family who spent their days yachting, entertaining or traveling, always with the best of the best. When she returned from her studies in Paris, she decided she wanted nothing to do with Greenwich, but was off to travel the world and against her mother's wishes, she did just that and defiantly left it all behind. She lived in Kabul, Munich, Belgium, and Milan, and eventually lost everything. She returned to the States, to an apartment in inner-city Washington, D.C., penniless and on her own with two young sons, where she was faced with survival. Unthinkable despair besieged her, but through the kindness of strangers, she found hope for the future as well as encouragement to succeed and came full circle with her family, her heritage, and her fortune.