Amanda "Mandy" Applegate was barely scraping by. Why she had bothered to stay in New York all these years, she would never know. It would have been easier to build a life for herself somewhere else—anywhere else—but she couldn't bear to leave.
She was born and raised in Brooklyn and never bothered to go anywhere else. It didn't help that she didn't have the funds to move after ending up homeless with a baby in tow before even graduating high school.
Her daughter was now twenty-seven and living a good life in Long Island with her lawyer husband and their two-year-old son. Raising her daughter into a decent person was the only good thing Mandy ever did.
Ironically, Brittany met her husband after he was chosen to be the court-appointed lawyer replacing Mandy's original one while she was in prison. She rotted in there for nine years all for defending her daughter's innocence against her scumbag ex-husband.
