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Podcast: Arroe Collins Pod-Crashing
Episode: Pod Crashing Episode 278 With Simon Kent Fung From The Podcast Dear Alana
Description: Pod Crashing Episode 278 With Simon Kent Fung From Dear Alana Host Simon Kent Fung explores the life of Alana Chen, a 24-year-old woman who disappeared from Boulder, Colorado in 2019. Alana left behind two dozen journals chronicling a deep faith, love of fashion, and dream of becoming a nun. She also harbored a secret. At 14, she confessed to her priest that she was attracted to women and was instructed not to tell her parents. Over the next seven years, Alana covertly received conversion therapy which her family believes played a role in her fate. Simon, who sought to change his sexual...