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Oct 2024
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229. Breaking Bread with my Abuser

BEN HAMM
About this episode

Jen joins Ben to share what happened when she sat down to dinner with a man who had sexually abused her as a child 40 years before.

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See Jen as a rebellious teen, her mom, dad, kids, and the lake.

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