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How Did The Raven Change Her Life
Raven remembers when she was 19 (birth name Tatiana) as her parents drive her home from a New York gymnastics competition. This was the night that Odessa changed her life forever. The mob had sent Petrovik to execute the hit on her family. He easily murders her parents and leaves Raven for dead – brutally impaled on a spiked fence – or so he thinks. This is also when Raven hears the name responsible for the hit: Viktor (Odessa Pakhan or “boss”). Just before dawn something strange happens to Raven which causes her to lose focus and almost pass out – she transforms from an aggressive personality into a shy and vulnerable one with zero clue of her

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