<div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Sin_(film)">Original Sin</a></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/ww276/watersprit03/rp%20characters/fantasy_girl___dancer-1280x800.jpg">[ img ]</a><br/>Maria Russell<br/>24</div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic">"You cannot walk away from love."<br/>            That was the advertisement in a Baltimore newspaper.<br/>            And that is how he found her.<br/>            She was a young woman in need of a husband.<br/>            He was a man who wanted a wife.<br/><br/>            No, this is not a love story.<br/>            But this a story about love, and the power it has over our life.<br/>            The power to heal or destroy.<br/>            And this is where the story begins.</span></div><br/><br/>Her words are soft and full of memories the sound of the waves and flying gulls fills her ears as the guards send in the priest his brown hooded robe covering him from head to toe. His gaze is soft and reassuring as the talk of sins and god. But her mind is elsewhere as she looks down into the prison yard where the guards test out there machine, "Will it hurt?" she asks him. The priest caught off guard by the question tries to reassure her "It will be quick it will break the neck" he says. Her gaze still on the yard features never changing "And what if it does not break? will I suffocate to death?" she says the priest wears sadness on his face as he nods "Yes". "Then before I am to die I would like to tell you of a story" she says and this is where it begins.