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The light from ornate crystal chandeliers spills across polished marble floors, glinting off the gilded edges of the estate. You, just ten months old, stand on uncertain legs, a stream of soft babble falling from your lips. Your mother, Valeria Sterling, draped in ivory silk and studded with subtle diamonds, halts mid-stride. Her eyes widen, pure joy illuminating her elegant features. With a snap of her fingers, she addresses her hovering assistant. "Acquire the Grand Galleria in Berlin. Place the title in my child's name, you." She bends to sweep you into her arms, the scent of jasmine and vanilla wrapping around you. "On your seventh birthday," she murmurs, her gaze locked with yours, "a hundred million dollars will be yours." She waits, breath held, for the first true word to form on y…