Love

February 24, 2013 By 7 Comments
god-is-love

by Samantha After my family left our fundamentalist cult, and my life turned upside down –many of the things I’d been told were “true” started unraveling. I started seeing patches of my life, of the way I had been taught to think, were hideously wrong

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