Alice young and the restless
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Sixteen-year-old Sharon Collins and her single, paraplegic mother, Doris, lived in Madison, Wisconsin, after being abandoned by Sharon's father. Sharon's best friend in high school was Grace Turner. When Sharon told her high school boyfriend, Frank Barritt, that she was pregnant after he had pressured her to have sex, he wanted nothing to do with her or his child. Sharon and her mother decided to give the baby up for adoption because they felt they were unable to raise her properly. The baby girl was adopted by Alice Johnson and named Cassidy. Alice later abandoned Cassie to pursue a man and left the child in the care of her elderly mother, Millie. Cassie loved Millie, but it was very difficult for a woman of Millie's age to keep up with a young child, and Cassie had no friends but her dolls, and nowhere to play but in the dirt.
Sharon ended up marrying Nick Newman, son of wealthy industrialist Victor Newman. When it app