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Timeflyer

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Sat Apr 29, 2023, 10:07 AM Apr 2023

"Uncultured: a memoir," by Daniella Mestyaned Young.

The author was born to a 14 year old, 2nd generation member of the Children of God cult. (For more info on the perverse child abuse and beliefs behind this group, google Davidito--warning: gives depravity a new and awful meaning). Young survived being raised in various Latin American communes behind tall gates, taught to fear the U.S. "system" and exposed to sexual predation endorsed by the "church" and ignored by the adults around her. She fled to the United States at 15 yrs. There she completed high school and college by sheer determination to become educated. Then she joined the army, and entered another highly structured "cult."

The book is fascinating, and I can't do the story and the author's struggles and triumphs justice here. If you're interested in cult psychology, the strength of the human spirit, and a brilliant woman's insights into the power structures that ensnared her, this is a great book.

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