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Today, we are honored to bring you Mandy's story. This story is about her time in a non-denominational

church in Wisconsin. Mandy will share about how she broke free after almost two decades

of service, loyalty, heartache, and abuse in an extremely high-control religious environment.

While she is now free, leaving was costly, and today she is bravely taking one more step into reclaiming her agency and her

voice by sharing part of her journey with us. If you listen and recognize yourself in this story,

you're not alone, and there is life on the other side. I'm Jonah Harris, and this is the Bodies Behind the Bus podcast.

I am all about blessed subtraction.

There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Marseville bus.

And by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

You either get on the bus or you get run over by the bus.

Those are the options.

But the bus ain't going to stop.

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