Neighbours remember them as mother and daughter who weren’t just family but also best friends — the church-going woman and her impeccably polite teen who would even get their nails done together.
They were ‘always happy, always together’, said a family friend. After finishing high school, 18-year-old Alexis Manigo had been preparing to leave home and move away from Walterboro, a small South Carolina town, and her beloved mother Gloria Williams, to attend a technical college.
But instead, this young woman faces an extraordinary dilemma — one that has touched everyone who has heard her story since it broke at the weekend.
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