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Apr 2023
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Meet Scamanda

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Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.

A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.

But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.

She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world. 

Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret. 

Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and left a community in shock.  

Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret. 

New episodes every Monday.

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