cover of episode 283: What if you saved your family from annihilation?

283: What if you saved your family from annihilation?

2023/6/20
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Jesse recounts the abusive environment he grew up in, characterized by his father's violent rages and his mother's paralysis and complicity. He describes how he and his brothers were isolated and terrorized, leading him to eventually cut ties with his parents.

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Grappling with a lifetime of looming abuse from his father and a mother suffering from paralysis, a man decides to cut ties with his parents, only to set in motion a new set of horrors that threaten to decimate his entire family. 

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**Producers: **Whit Missildine, Aviva Lipkowitz, Andrew Waits

Content/Trigger Warnings:  domestic violence, domestic abuse of a minor, attempted murder, suicidal ideation, suicide, explicit language

 

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