![]() ![]() She recalls begging her mother to spend time with her, and sitting outside of her mother’s door, waiting to be acknowledged. ![]() Kohn straightforwardly recalls her feelings of abandonment because her mother chose the church, church duties, and even taking care of other people’s children before her own children. She struggled to find a place in the Moonies, always wondering where she truly belonged. ![]() She lived in two worlds: on weekends, she and her brother visited their mother, who abandoned them for the Moonies during the week they stayed with their father, a bartender who considered “slut” a term of endearment and encouraged the use of recreational drugs. Lisa Kohn’s memoir of growing up in the 1960s and 1970s under the influence of the Unification Church-the “Moonies” cult-is at once heartrending and mind-blowing. ![]()
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