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Welcome back to an ongoing series covering the unusual story of Kala Reed.

In part one I provided a timeline of the key moments of Kayla's disappearance and reappearance.

And of course we heard from Kayla herself who provided the reasoning behind her decision to flee her home and family to join a controversial spiritual group in Costa Rica.

Next I shifted the attention to the other character in this story and began a two-part

episode covering the life and beliefs of Nature Boy, the former American male model who now leads the spiritual group Kayla fled to Costa Rica to join.

In the last episode, The Rise of Nature Boy, I use excerpts from my conversation with

the accused cult leader to provide an abridged telling of his life as Bishop prior to his

spiritual awakening. In this episode we will

rejoin the story from this point but before we get back to Nature Boy's story I

want to clear the air on a few things.

As Nature Boy's story has been and will be told in his own words,

it's important to make it clear that what we are hearing

is his version of these events,

and like many other great stories, there are probably other sides to it.

My goal has been to simply provide what he felt the traditional media denied him,

an unbiased and respectful telling of his story.

Despite the neutral tone I set in the prior episode, Nature Boy has made public statements against it,

which included accusations that the excerpts were chosen in such a way to twist his words against them.

Of course I take offense to this, so to alleviate any suspicions of malicious intent on my part I've published the full

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