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🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Secret 029: A Life of Boarding School PART ONE
A complicated mother/daughter dynamic lands a 13 year old in an out-of-state school that functions more like a prison and a Wilderness Program in the middle of a Utah desert. Today’s guest shares the harsh realities of her adolescence and paints a shocking picture of alternative therapeutic schooling options.
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0:09.8 | I'm sleeping with my best friend's husband. |
0:12.1 | I think my uncle killed someone in his suicide. I am a sugar baby |
0:15.0 | I am a sugar baby addicted to adder all. |
0:18.1 | I think my sister is actually my uncle's kid. |
0:21.2 | My husband's son, her son, when I was a kid. What's your |
0:25.0 | a girl car whenever I was a last girl? What's your secret? |
0:30.0 | Welcome back to Secret Keepers. This is Beyond the Secret and as you know I am Ace Fanning. |
0:40.8 | So I have to be up front with you because I have sat on this interview for quite a |
0:49.6 | while now not an insanely long amount of time, but a good amount of time because it's not really a secret. |
1:00.0 | I mean, it is, and she's anonymous and it's just like a regular episode but it's it's a |
1:08.6 | story that involves a lot of people and I mean like a lot of people were around. It wasn't done in secret. But ultimately I think that |
1:21.0 | it's a story that really needs to be told because it's eye opening and |
1:27.0 | that's the entire point of this podcast to shed light on things that people like you and I are oblivious to. |
1:37.0 | But before you listen to this story, I want you to know that she has a really good sense of humor about all of the |
1:46.4 | things that went on during this time and even I was cracking jokes when I really didn't want to be and I got annoyed of myself in editing the episode, but I don't want you to confuse her laughter with the severity of everything that she went through. |
2:08.0 | So, this week's secret, a life of boarding schools, part one. |
2:20.0 | Walk me through kind of you at like 10, 11, 12, what kind of kid you were at those ages? |
2:30.0 | I was actually super sheltered. I was the overweight crazy long hair braces glasses girl who was on the soccer team but like |
2:41.6 | had zero friends if that makes sense. I wasn't I wasn't |
2:48.4 | allowed to play outside I wasn't allowed to do playdates where like my mom just dropped me off so she was always there |
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