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Guaranteed Human.

This is an incredible story that sounds like it's made up.

It sounds like a soap opera.

It sounds like a drama movie.

But it's so real and it's not the only one.

There are things we might not know about somebody we live with.

And there's so many stories like this.

I'm Andrea Gunning, and this is Betrayal, a show about the people we trust the most and the deceptions that change everything.

About a year ago, we heard from a listener with a story that floored us.

Tora Giles is a history professor in Colorado,

but she grew up on the California coast with her seven siblings.

And we grew up on a farm, so my life was kind of wild and crazy and great.

I grew up super religious in the Seventh-A Adventist Church.

As a kid, the church was Torah's life.

She went to a Christian school.

Her friends and after-school activities were all through the church.

And she assumed that her life would follow the same path that was modeled by the women around her.

Graduate high school, get married, and start having kids.

Funny enough, I thought as a kid that 20 years old was being a grown-up and 25-year-olds

were old.

And so I thought for sure that I would be married by 20, but I never really dated.

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