“I didn’t know what normal was, so everything looked so scary….Everything I was doing I was learning for the time it was like my birth into the world.”
Producer: Whit Missildine
**Episode Summary: **A woman puts the pieces of her life back together after a childhood spent inside an insidious religious cult in Los Angeles.
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**Content/Trigger Warnings: **child abuse, sexual abuse, suicide, death, drug use, mental illness, explicit language
Intro Music: "Illabye" – Tipper
Music Bed: “Union Flow” – Spuntic
Outro Music: "The Moon is Down" - El Diablo & Adam Schraft (Rojo y Negro) @eldiablosf) @rojo-y-negro) www.eldiablobass.com/)
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