This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

This whole experience really made me doubt my abilities as a parent and my self as a person.

Basically every aspect of my identity that I had spent so long trying to find, it like shook everything.

Yeah. So long, trying to find. It, like, shook everything. I'm Andrea Gunning, and this is betrayal,

a show about the people we trust the most and the deceptions

that change everything.

This is the story of an entire community, one group of parents who experienced a shocking deception

and overcame it together.

We'll hear more from the larger community later, but for the majority of this episode, we're going to tell it through one person's perspective.

We'll call her Sarah.

Sarah is living her best life as an organic farmer in Vermont.

She exudes cool.

She's covered in tattoos and rocks a shaved head.

They never have to have a bad hair day.

I just don't ever have hair.

She grew up in the Northeast as the oldest child in her family.

When she was little, her parents struggled to make ends meet,

and her father battled addiction.

Sarah remembers a time when her parents were skeptical about organized religion.

Even the Christian undertones in cartoons like veggie tales made her parents uncomfortable.

I remember a conversation where my parents were like going back and forth and they were like,

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