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Sep 2020
52m 46s

My Mother Made Me Her Prisoner

Other People’s Lives
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A woman talks about how she escaped being a prisoner to her abusive, controlling mother with Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 
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