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My Dad Grew Up in a Cult. Now He’s a Famous Scientist.

9 min readApr 13, 2021

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Two vintage photographs of my dad and his sisters
My dad and his sisters, in the 1960s and 1980s, just before and after Synanon.

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Amanda Montell
Amanda Montell

Written by Amanda Montell

Los Angeles writer / Author of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism & Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language https://tinyurl.com/34886sec

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