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Guaranteed Human.

I really think of this as like this moment that like sort of split my life in half.

Like there's a very, very distinct sort of before and after.

And I remember thinking like, oh, my family as I know it is over.

Yeah. thinking like, oh, my family, as I know it, is over. I'm Andre Gunning, and this is a special bonus episode of Betrayal.

Recently, we've connected with a host of another popular podcast about betrayal and deception.

It's called Nobody Should Believe Me, hosted by Andrea Dunlop.

Every season covers a case of factitious disorder, also known as Munchausens.

And for Andrea, the story is personal.

We're going to be hearing more from her over the next few weeks.

So we wanted to start by telling Andrea's story.

It starts in childhood, and it involves some of her earliest memories of her sister, Megan.

My sister and I are less than two years apart. She was born in 80. I was born in 82, right?

So I feel like we had this very happy childhood. It feels like a real bygone era now, right?

They grew up in an affluent Seattle suburb.

You know, we were friends with all the other kids on our block, and there was, like,

not busy streets, like a lot of, like, riding bikes.

We played outdoors a lot, built a lot of forts, climbed a lot of trees.

Just just like such a dream, such a dream childhood.

Her sister Megan was a social butterfly.

But when I was a kid, I was not really the kid that would just like go up to a person and be like,

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