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Podcast: shunned
Episode: Episode Eighty Three - Laurel - Growing up in and leaving Scientology
Description: What is it like to grow up as a child in Scientology? Not as a celebrity, nor anyone with clout, but as an average person going to a local church and trying to assimilate into the only life that you know? Laurel tells her personal story of growing up as a Scientologist, joining the Sea Org at just 13 years of age, getting married, her path toward becoming a "word clearer", and one particular way to leave the Sea Org to obtain freedom. This isn't just a story about Scientology though, this is a story about how a...