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Finally, I get it. I understand. I know what’s going on and I know what’s missing. It all makes sense now. It all came together for me.

I’ve been brainwashed.

I don’t want to let my captors know that I know. Not yet. I need to formulate a plan. But that’s what’s happened. They beat me, they drugged me, they tortured me and deprived me of the basic luxuries and, in some cases, the necessities of life. In the process, they broke down every fiber of my ...