Harley Street

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Margo at Butlins, Ayr, 1966 or 1967

Margo Perina knew that there was something suspicious about her Parents , particularly her abusive Father - But it took years to figure out what they were hiding.

Margo Perina was 13 When her Father summoned into The Living Room of their apartment in the West End of Glasgow, and asked if she would like to be pretty. He sat opposite her, Smoking with a shiny, black cigarette holder, his lighter gold and onyx ashtray by his side. "You can't things worth noting in these days," he said.

He had Taken Time out of his busy schedule to visit a specialist, in London, on he went, agreed that Margo should have cosmetic surgery to change the size of your nose, before they stopped development. He even had The Appointment .

Margo 's family before the birth of her youngest sibling, New York , in 1961, Almost everything about Margo 's was in education for a traumatic and confusing Time . For The First seven years of her life, Margo , her six siblings and Parents lived in New York City - a lot of Time in a Manhattan penthouse suite. But then her life was more unpredictable. They adopted the new family name and with unusual frequency, take only what they could carry in hastily Packed suitcases.

you went To Live in Mexico. Because, One Day , their house was burglarized. The Place has been ransacked, though nothing seemed to be Taken - it was As If someone was looking for something. "How did you find us?" Margo heard her mother grieve. "No one will know we were Here . "Bundled in taxis, The Family was on The Move again, This Time in The Bahamas .

Margo 's Parents are never the reason for this sudden upheaval explains. They rarely talked about The Past , the only clues about what was going on, were heard fragments of their conversations and arguments Margo , in which The Letters F B and I would show up often. "It was altogether confusing," Margo . "But I think what happened with children being lied to, that they are almost like detectives. "

Arden and Margo , Florida, 1963/4 Lilyan and Arden, Margo 's mother and Father , were very glamorous. Arden always immaculately dressed, with a handkerchief in his breast pocket, shoes, manicured nails, and hair were shiny, Pomade. Lilyan had eyebrows beautiful dresses and make-up, her pencil, and gave her a look of permanent surprise. There were a lot of cocktail-drinking, Margo , remembers, and while she lived in New York , at least your Parents you went to the Opera or movies almost every night, leaving Margo is the oldest sister in charge.

The Children had it impressed you, that you can't tell anyone that you taught too Much about her family and her Father also, a small trick to work with any unwanted probing. If someone asks you A Question you do not want to answer, he said, they just give you a different answer. "Direct questions were not says be encouraged," Margo .

Arden, Glasgow, about 1967, One Day , Margo home Beach came from the school in Miami to discover that the "evil men" that she had heard veiled references to had caught, with her Father . "Have you asked to see it, Dad?" one of her sisters. He would have been beaten and his face was black and blue. But her Parents never explains why he has been attacked, or by whom, or mentioned, that The Stranger was sitting in The Living Room , from there, a Bodyguard was - and the kids knew better than to ask.

While she's always had a place To Live and food to eat, and they always went in the school, it lacked love and care from their Parents . It was not only the forgetting of birthdays - The Children were scared witless of their Father . After his return from work, he would over his knee and beat her with a Table Tennis bat in retribution for all the misdeeds, while she watched her mother, looking resentful.

Margo on the stairs to her apartment in Hyndland, Glasgow, in 1967/8, although Margo was horrified, her Father , refused initially, The Nose job. It was only, as their next sister of their hands with the fear came clear in her Room , crying and rank, that, Margo , you really have a choice. "Please, please, not The Nose job," her sister implored. "If you don't do it, Dad will not let me leave the house. "

all you were desperate to escape from their Parents , and Margo couldn't bear it away, in her sister. "I had the feeling, to be deaf," she says. "All I wanted to do was protect My Sister . "

nose doctor in Harley Street office, Margo a portfolio with page after page of different noses. Arden then left his daughter in The Hospital , where the operation is to take place and flew back to Glasgow.

Three Days later, your nose is still in bandages, the eyes still black and swollen - a 13-year-old Margo , your own way home to Scotland.

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It wasn't long before Arden announced that The Family would move again. London, he said to them, a better location for the expansion of The Business . If Margo ' asked s Younger Brother , what kind of business, he replied: "don't forget to bring your sweater. "

Within a few months after the arrival in the New City , Margo realized that she was in big trouble. "He's going to Kill Me ," she sobbed down The Phone to her older sister, who had managed to stay with her friend in Glasgow.

"Who will you kill?", Her Father 's voice boomed behind her, as he was The Phone ripped from the hand, grabbed her by the hair and twisted her head to the side, until it burst.

On your last afternoon in Glasgow, you had slipped into a pub, looking for a girlfriend, would, wanted, to Say Goodbye . If you had not Found him, she took a drink from a bearded stranger, and she'd ended up back in his apartment, where Margo watched, curious, as he cooked up a mixture of brown powder and water on a spoon, scooped the liquid into a needle and put it in the crook of his arm. You had sex on the cold black-and-white floor tiles in The Bathroom , before Margo 's body relaxed under his sleeping to it at home before your regular session Time - their last in the Glasgow house.

Now she was pregnant and your Father calls you every name under The Sun , punching you in the stomach and demanding, whose baby it was.

Margo wanted The Abortion , But as with The Nose job, she had no choice. Her mother pushed her in a taxi, threw it in a travel bag and made a point to say how difficult it was to arrange.

The Law was that abortions have been legally introduced in England, two years earlier, in 1967, But the negative attitude often prevailed also so, especially When it came to unmarried underage girls.

in The Hospital in South London , Margo was speaking in a private Room , directly in the work of the congregation, and said, to no one. You could hear laughing, chatting and newborn crying. One of The Nurses muttered "slag" under her breath, as The Room left.

Margo (left) on A Family holiday after her nose job and an Abortion , which had made her mother, you cut your hair After you finally leave the house, with 16, Margo began to destroy itself - from friend to friend, lives in WG and squats, and with the drug.

But then, at 19, she was diagnosed with cancer - Hodgkin's lymphoma and was told they could easily die. "I knew I wanted To Live ," Margo says, "and I really wanted something of my own. "When she had recovered, she began to rotate her life.

at the Time , she got very little contact with their Parents , and the further you are away from them, the better they Felt .

Margo in San Francisco , in 1986, But her strange upbringing continues to puzzle her.

It was only years later, When one of their sisters wrote a letter to the New York Times, and it was printed to learn The Letters to The Editor page, that Margo began to The Truth about their Parents .

The Letter was noticed by her Father , the sister-in-law, a part of the extended family, Margo and her siblings had never met. The FBI had declared in search of Arden, the sister-in-law, and questioned them all.

More information came in 2007, When Margo 's made brother's wife, locate Arden's death certificate. He had died three years earlier, in Eastbourne, Sussex, after a series of strokes; his activity was listed as "Economist, retired".

When Margo sent this to the FBI with the request that his records, you have a 100-page file with details of a criminal career back in the 1940s.

Margo Felt tainted. "My Father was a career to steal money," she says. "He was a gangster who liked really getting the better of the people, he was a low-life. "

But why in the world he had forced a nose job?

Margo 's theory is that he's disguising the fact that he was Jewish, and was afraid that her nose would give him away.

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