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For eight years, while I was living my ordinary life as a single woman, my cousin, Emily Foster, was living it better. She took my name, my ID, and my future—walked down the aisle in a white dress, married a wealthy stranger. I had no idea. Not a clue. That changed the morning I stood at the civil affairs counter and heard the clerk say, "Ma'am, you've been married since 2018." I'd never met the groom. I'd never signed a thing. But when I asked to see the original file, there it was: my face staring back from the application photo—except it wasn't me. It was Emily. Now I hold the proof in my hands. And I'm not keeping it to myself. She stole my name for eight years. She stole my youth. But she's about to discover that a stolen marriage doesn't come with a clean getaway.