A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.

My name is Andrea and this is Adult Child.

Welcome back to Adult Child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Guys, y'all need to buckle up because we are going on a wild ride for the next two episodes.

We are diving deep with singer, songwriter, recovering addict, former sex worker, but most importantly,

my former boarding school classmate, Lucy Turchin, and this story is juicy, it is raw, it is vulnerable, but trigger warning,

her story does include being sex trafficked as a teenager, as well as working in the sex industry for many years,

so nothing super graphic or violent, but just want to give you a heads up and a trigger warning.

So I talked about this boarding school in the fourth episode of the pod, now this was a quote-unquote character building school,

aka a school for troubled teens, run by a bunch of people who had no business running a school for troubled teens,

but in all honesty, Lucy and I were actually texting about this, how we're grateful that we got sent there.

Yes, it was traumatic, but it didn't really leave any permanent damage, and we can sure as hell laugh about it today,

as opposed to some other therapeutic boarding schools that some kids get sent to that are truly horrific,

like for example, the one that Paris Hilton got sent to.

So yes, ours was not great, but like I said, I don't think it left any permanent damage on either one of us.

So you're going to get to hear Lucy's story of what led her to being sent to the school,

but I want to remind you of my story, of what led me to being sent to the school.

Now it is a much milder story than Lucy's, as you'll soon hear, but it is still a gem of a story.

It is the story of the internal coin purse.

So as soon as my parents stopped drug testing me, I started smoking pot again on a daily basis,

and I actually managed to get away with it for almost an entire year, until the summer between 9th and 10th grade

when I had my first incident with the law.

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