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Name: Jasmine Suresh
Age: 19
Current Residence: Lemures Apartment Complex
Occupation: student

Jasmine’s father came from a family that valued tradition and made a very clear point to honor that tradition. So when her mother had first discovered she was pregnant, her father instantly proclaimed that his firstborn would be a son, a strong, healthy boy who would be there to carry on the family name and take over the family business when it was time for him to step down. Suresh Glass Co. had been in the family for many generations, and was now a very prosperous, very big company in the glass making industry. The nursery was decked out in all blue and filled with all the things a little boy could possibly want. Her father was so convinced it was a boy, he refused to let the doctor tell them the sex of the baby. He was sure he already knew. And when her mother went into labor, he was ready. He had blue cigars specially made for the occasion. There was to be a big celebration at the warehouse and the official announcement of the birth of the heir to the Suresh Glass Company was to be made. But those blue cigars never got the chance to be used. Something went wrong during the delivery, and her mother lost far more blood than she should have. The doctors tried everything, but the bleeding would not stop. The moment that Jasmine took her first breath was the moment her mother took her last. Her father was devastated, but when the doctors announced that it was a girl, all of that devastation transformed into shock. All the dreams he had been cultivating during the nine months of pregnancy vanished and were replaced with visions of a useless baby girl. When she was placed in his arms, he stared down at the infant with wide eyes, and she stared right back at him. And it was in that moment that her father decided that having a baby girl may not be so bad after all.

The proud parents never settled on a name for a girl, so sure they were that they were having a boy. When he was asked what name he wanted on the birth certificate, the first thing that came to mind was Jasmine, her mother’s favorite scent. And so, Jasmine was welcomed into a world of abundance and luxury. Her father doted on his only child, giving her everything that she could ever possibly need or want. He began to shape her into the perfect daughter, a quiet, obedient girl who knew her place, because even though he doted on her, he wanted her to know that she was not going to be given the status as heir. Heirs in the Suresh family were men, and he was determined to keep it that way. Fate had other ideas though. There were to be no other Suresh children aside from Jasmine. It took him a while to come to terms with this idea, but eventually, he did, and he even came up with a way to avoid having Jasmine run the business. He would find a suitable husband for Jasmine, one that he would be proud to call son. It would be this man that took over the family business. It was on her eighteenth birthday that Jasmine was informed of this. And it was at that moment that Jasmine stopped being the quiet, obedient daughter her father had worked so hard to groom. Now she started to carve herself into an individual, and she looked desperately for a way to retain her independence. She had kept quiet all of her life because she had been content with the knowledge that eventually she would be free of all the constraint placed on her while she was under her fathers care. If she had to marry a man of his choosing though, things would never change. And she did not want to have the rest of her life decided for her. Jasmine wanted to start making decisions for herself. From the moment her father had announced his decision to run the rest of her life, Jasmine had slowly begun to pull away from the cozy web of security he had woven around her, and she began to look for ways to sate her restless desire for freedom.


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