Hey everybody, Justin here.

This episode of Holy Ghost Stories contains some content that falls into the category of sexual abuse.

If that's particularly difficult for you, you might skip this story.

Or if you've got younger ones in the car or in the room with you, you might listen to the episode first and then decide whether to share it with them.

Just wanted to give you a heads up.

Music first and then decide whether to share it with them. Just wanted to give you a heads up. What might you do if you were desperate?

How far would you go?

What boundaries would you cross? How frantically would you go? What boundaries would you cross?

How frantically would you claw at the object of your desire?

When we're cornered, treed, surrounded, all bets are off.

This is not the realm of prudence, but of instinct. Reflex. Survival.

This is a story about the lengths to which we'll go when desperation closes in. It's a story about fear and about courage, about legacy and selfishness and the shatterproof

plans of God. And it's the kind of story that seems especially close to Yahweh's heart,

where Eden is reversed and a woman deceives the serpent. I'm Justin Gerhardt.

Welcome to Holy Ghost Stories.

I'm Justin Gerhardt. It won't be long now. It won't be long now.

She's been chosen.

Selected.

Matched and dowried and now on her way to Krasib,

Tamar is nervous, surely, but hopeful as well.

She may be young, 13 or 14 years old, most likely, but she knows what she wants.

A family.

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