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Always a Bride, Never a Bridesmaid

Liana Barrientos, 39, of New York, N.Y., has been married at least 10 times, including six times in one six-month span. The problem, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s office, is Barrientos never got any divorces. Prosecutors have filed felony charges against her, alleging at least two counts of filing a false instrument. When a reporter went to her apartment to get a statement, he was told Barrientos had moved into a homeless shelter. (RC/New York Daily News) ...Couldn’t she stay with her husband? Or her husband, or her husband, or her....
Original Publication Date: 26 April 2015
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 21.

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