S24 Ep7: For-Profit Money-Grabbing Bullshit Places
*Content warning: distressing topics, suicidal ideation, disability abuse, religious and cultic abuse, sexual abuse and rape of a child, physical violence of children, institutional child abuse, childhood trauma, attack therapy, therapeutic abuse, grooming.
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