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The fake heiress, Winnie Dawson, insisted she had late-stage brain cancer. I had been lost from my family for twenty years, enduring everything life could throw at me, before finally being brought back by the Dawson family, the wealthiest family in Solsticeville. At the family reunion party, Winnie showed up on stage, clinging to my biological parents and even my fiancé. "Natalia," she said softly, "I've been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. The doctors say I only have three months left. "Everyone knows how kind and generous you are, so I'm sure you won't mind letting me borrow your parents and your fiancé for those three months. I just want to leave without regrets." What they didn't know was that I had just activated a truth-becomes-reality system. A notification chimed in my mind: [Winnie Dawson confirmed with terminal malignant glioblastoma. Tumor mass is now compressing the brainstem.]