Laura Schroff

Laura Shroff is a young upwardly mobile sales executive for an advertising company. She's by self definition, a New York kind of woman. She's streetwise in that she knows to ignore panhandlers, carry her purse close to her body, and to avoid certain parts of the city when it is dark.

She grew up in an abusive home, where her father, Nunzie, held court. She had two brothers Frank and Steve, and two sisters, Annette and Nancy.

Growing up in the suburbs, she longed to have a house, husband, and children playing in the yard. This was the ideal situation. It was one that her family pretended to have as they hid her father's alcoholic rages.

Laura works hard, and values the rich life. She lives in a small but expensive apartment, and is proud of the fashionable and expensive possessions she's acquired as a result of...