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Content warning: Themes and or references to cult practices and mutilation. Reader discretion is advised.Around 20 years ago, I got free of my father and his cult. I still find that my curiosity drives me back here. It is unfathomable that I would be back here after all this time. It’s been 20 years; I wonder how the place has held up. “It’s probably in shambles,” I muttered to myself. As I walked up the driveway, I noticed some old vestiges of blood on the edges of the stone pathway. I remember my father dragging the bodies off the side of ...
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