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Santiago interviews Melissa Duge Spiers, AKA Deconstruction Auntie. Melissa is an award-winning memoirist, screenwriter, and essayist based in Silicon Valley, California. She grew up as a 4th generation Adventist, got baptized at 12, and left the church after high school. This is Part 1 of a 2 part conversation.
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Other podcast episodes featuring Melissa:
- This Podcast Needs a Title - The One with Melissa Duge Spiers
- The Cult of Christianity - Sex
- Nurses and Hypochondriacs - Does Religion Influence Serial Killers?
- Heauxly Coitus - Melissa’s Heaux Story
- Boom Tequila - Sexual Empowerment, Brothels & Purity Culture with Melissa Duge Spiers
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