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26|PART 1 - Parentified At A Young Age, Surviving Abuse & Alcoholic Parents: Lacey Gallear's Story
What happens when the people meant to protect you are the ones you have to survive? In this gripping episode of Intrepid Storytåelling, host Deanna Powell sits down with her cousin, Lacey Gallear, to uncover a childhood defined by high-stakes family drama and rigid religious structures. Lacey shares the shocking reality of her earliest years, a "double kidnapping" between parents that landed her on a family commune in Placerville. There, Lacey led a "Cinderella" existence, parentified at age eight to perform grueling housework and childcare under the shadow of a volatile stepmother who used…
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