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Guaranteed Human.

My mom used to always joke around and say,

oh, you never marry a doctor because he knows how to kill you and get away with it.

She always said that.

So I always had that in the back of my head.

I'm Andrea Gunning, and this is Betrayal, a show about the people we trust the most and the

deceptions that change everything.

Tammy McCrary is a polite, easygoing woman.

She's quick to laugh and to make herself laugh.

She says that above all, her kids are her world.

I have three children and I treat all of them as though they are the only. And now my grandchildren,

oh, those grandkids, that's a whole other level of love. Tammy grew up in Atlanta where she was raised by

her mother. She was an only child, just her, her mom, and her mom's sister. As a kid, Tammy dreamed of having a nuclear family of her own. Most of my friends were in a two-parent home.

I did not have the family structure of father and mom.

So I admired that.

I wanted to have that for myself and for my children.

In high school, Tammy started dating a guy she'd grown up with.

We'd known each other a long time, and he'd always teased me about being his wife.

It was a joke at first, because Tammy had other plans.

I had planned to go to college.

But when she was 17,

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