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I wanted to be free so badly I could taste it. Taking a deep breath, I opened the door. Dad's face was bright red, his breathing heavy with asthma and anger. Then, before I could lose my nerve, I yelled the words that had been building in me for nine years:"I want to leave The Family!"
Berg started preaching about how much God loved sex, only the Devil had demonized it. It's part of why I left the cult when I did. In about five months, I would have turned 16, and been considered an adult who was supposed to have sex widely without birth control. The only way of life I'd known had disappeared, and the big, bad outside world came rushing in. My family had been in the cult for generations, believing to the core that the outside world was pure evil.
Like a spy, I'd have to find ways to fit in, to disguise my differences, to not arouse any suspicions that I might be different from who I appeared to be on the outside. That would be easy enough—without The Family, I had no clue who I was.Taught to be the best from birth, and beaten if I stepped out of line, I was confident I could play any role required to survive.
Picking up the uniform of an American soldier after college didn't seem strange. I knew I'd be able to fit in. After the chaos of the outside world, I craved the structure of going back inside; of having someone tell me where to go and what to wear; of having brothers and sisters around me, reinforcing that our shared mission was the right one.
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