Summary
Randi-Lynn thought she was going on a relaxing family vacation to the mountains. Just a few days later, she was hiding in a bathroom and frantically posting on Reddit, asking for help. The headline of her post? "I think I was brought on a girls trip to be brainwashed."
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| 0:00.0 | Just a heads up, this episode mentions some sensitive stuff, including violence against children. |
| 0:06.0 | So please use discretion. |
| 0:08.0 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:11.0 | Produced by the island at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:20.0 | How did you get away with making the post? |
| 0:23.0 | I believe I was in a Starbucks bathroom. |
| 0:26.0 | I actually wrote most of it on notes when I was with them. |
| 0:31.0 | This is a woman named Randy Lynn. |
| 0:33.0 | And a few weeks ago, she was furiously trying to post a Reddit from a Starbucks bathroom. |
| 0:39.0 | She was worried about the people she was with. |
| 0:41.0 | She knew they wouldn't want her posting. |
| 0:44.0 | And this was the only cell service she could get after they brought her to a cabin in the mountains. |
| 0:50.0 | She was pretty freaked out. |
| 0:53.0 | I can't believe I'm dealing with this and I'm sitting in some random bathroom writing about all this kind of stuff. |
| 1:01.0 | The strange part is that the people Randy Lynn was with were her family, her mom, and a couple of aunts. |
| 1:09.0 | She'd agreed to go on a trip with them, hours away from home, for what was supposed to be a girls' trip in a mountain town. |
| 1:16.0 | But that wasn't how it played out. |
| 1:18.0 | And now she was posting on Reddit, looking for help. |
| 1:22.0 | This has been going on the past few days and I have been hesitant to call what it is, but I believe they brought me here to attempt to reprogramme. |
| 1:29.0 | There is next to no cell service at the cabin, but when I went to town yesterday, I got away for a little while by claiming to need to buy some toiletries. |
| 1:38.0 | Really, I went into a Starbucks and called my fiance and told him everything. |
| 1:42.0 | He knows I can't go home and advised me not to do anything to upset them because we really don't know how far they will go. |
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