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It’s the third season of the series where each episode focuses on one person telling the story of the adversity they’ve faced in their lives. The first traverses the now-familiar local television doco territory of Gloriavale. David Ready gives a compelling account of being raised in the religious cult as the second-youngest of 13 kids, what led him to depart the community in his teens, and his difficulties adjusting to life in the outside world. The programme comes with dramatisations depicting his strict upbringing and the

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