Episode 01: The Cult of My Dreams Was ItalianA memoir in sound — life after the 2x2s.

I thought I was writing a memoir. But the present kept interrupting.

This is the first episode of Cultivated, a literary memoir of resilience and reinvention after life in a cult. It's a story told in essays, unfolding in real time. It begins not with escape or revelation, but with a question: What am I now?

Raised in the secretive 2x2s, I’m still untangling what that upbringing gave me, what it stole, and what it means to make something of a life after all that.

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