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Hi, everyone. I'm very happy you're going to be able to hear part two of my conversation with Hannah Watkins. Hannah was born into an organization called The Move of God, and she spent the

first 18 years of her life in that religious organization.

In the time since she has left, she has learned to value the sense of family and community she was raised in,

while also seeing how damaging and dangerous extreme adherence to restrictive religious beliefs can be, especially

for young girls. She also, in my talk with her today, explains about what it was like for her

to leave the organization and kind of land on earth start her life anew, or really for the first time

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