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After healing from a major trauma as a teenager, featured in Episode 111 of this show, our storyteller returns to share a dramatic follow up. In this episode, in the wake of his grandmother’s death, he begins taking a volatile medication cocktail and suffers a severe manic break, living on the streets among society’s most disregarded, confronting his deepest shadows and being forced to piece his life back together once again.
Today’s guest requested to remain Anonymous. If you want to reach out to him, please email him at [email protected].
**Producers: **Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Aviva Lipkowitz
**Content/Trigger Warnings: **drug use, death, grooming, sexual exploitation, sexual assault & rape, manic break/manic behavior, explicit language
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**Intro Music: **"Illabye" – Tipper
**Music Bed: **Re-Entry
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