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320: What if your mom believed she was the good witch?

2024/5/21
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The narrator's father leaves the family after realizing his wife's involvement in voodoo and her abuse towards their children. This leads to the father's heavy drinking and eventual departure from the household.

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Growing up with a mother who used practiced an abusive form of spiritual voodoo, a man seeks to numb his pain, but after tragedy and a descent into crack addiction, he finally finds the cure he’d been looking for. 

Today’s episode featured Will Taylor. 

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**Producers: **Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli

Content/Trigger Warnings: abuse of a minor, drug abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, murder, death, graphic bodily injury, explicit language

 

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