A poor girl begged a billionaire for school shoes and promised to repay him—what happened next left everyone in stunned silence.

reorganized archives that had been neglected for years. Within weeks, executives were asking how they had functioned without her. Miles’s vice president called her “a real find.” Miles did not correct him when he called Diane his girlfriend.

Maybe because that was what she had become.

Maybe because labels mattered less than the fact that she now walked continue reading …