243: What if you signed a billion-year contract?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
After a woman’s Mormon family falls apart following the death of her father, her mother brings her to a Scientology Center where she leaves everything behind.
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Content/Trigger Warnings: abuse of a minor, parental neglect, sexual assault, suicidal ideation, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.2 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode |
| 0:07.6 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:16.8 | You were once on solid footing and then the world starts to shake beneath you. |
| 0:21.8 | Now your world is completely different, your landscape, everything you ever knew is completely different. |
| 0:26.7 | Like somebody reached down in your life, like you're in a snow globe and someone just shakes it up |
| 0:31.8 | and so now there's just chaos all around you and you don't know how to handle it. |
| 0:47.6 | From Wondry, I'm Whit Missaldine. |
| 0:50.0 | You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 1:00.3 | Episode 243. |
| 1:03.9 | What if you signed a billion year contract? |
| 1:13.1 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to this is actually happening. |
| 1:16.9 | Add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 1:21.4 | It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child. |
| 1:25.8 | For many, it's their biggest fear. |
| 1:27.9 | Amarissa Jones, host of The Vanished. |
| 1:30.4 | A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked and unsolved missing persons cases |
| 1:35.1 | in an effort to uncover the truth. |
| 1:37.2 | Listen to The Vanished on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:52.0 | I was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. |
| 1:55.3 | We were Mormon. |
| 1:57.0 | We have six kids in our family. |
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