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Malinka and her dark-skinned mother, Ladivine, often drew stares in the French village where they lived in a cramped, two-room flat. A pale beauty, Malinka intuited early on that with cold, calculated determination she could rise above her mother's life of servitude. At 16, she caught a train to Bordeaux, took a room and a job, and reinvented herself as Clarisse, a girl no longer burdened with a family. When Richard Rivière proposed marriage, he was ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More