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Hi. My name is Megan. I'm 24 years old, and I'm from Minnesota.

And this is the testimony of how Jesus Christ saved me.

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The So honestly, growing up, I grew up, I grew up in a very broken family, everything from an emotionally

neglectful mother to an absent alcoholic father. And that really kind of set the stage for a lot of the issues that I developed like growing up.

And with in between all of like the chaos between my parents, I also like experienced sexual abuse and was molested by a neighbor kid, which really created like some sexual brokenness that kind of followed me throughout my life.

And it just kind of compounded on top of like the issues that were kind of born out of like everything that was happening with my parents.

So I really became like this troublemaking like black sheep.

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I really struggled throughout all of this with having like a lack of identity and a lack of like self-worth because it wasn't instilled in me.

It wasn't spoken over me.

And it really left me in a state of like confusion and

desperately like searching and clinging to people in things that I felt like would

give me worth. And you know, even though I grew up in a church, it was really hard to understand the God that I was hearing about on like Sunday morning services when I would see people who profess to be Christians like acting

very unchristian-like, un-Christ-like, which really led to a lot of like bitterness toward

God and a lot of like wrestling. So even when I like begrudgingly started to like admit the existence of God as a teenager,

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