The Vow
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Thatll wake you up in the mornin, boy!
Painful, yes, you might think, but quick, like a burn from a hot cookie sheet.
So why the hell would they submit?
Well, because if women came together, they were told, they could reallydo something.
Lets put aside the fact that the question What if women couldreallydo something?
(Remember how this whole people existing experiment only works if there are uteri?)
Well focus instead on how big and weird of a promise it was to the members of NXIVM.
), and as relatively high-ranking lieutenants in NXIVMs army, the two shared almost everything.
Some are sit-down interviews, filmed much later.
(DONT FUCK WITH ME.
I WONT FUCK WITH YOU.)
), Lauren talks about like a bachelorette party with a few too many penis Jell-O shots.
But somehow the day-to-day workings of DOS are even more alarming than the Girls Night Out, Branding Edition.
Those flashes of text messages: May I go to sleep?
along with a chain-link emoji and a little heart made my eyeballs expand to an unprecedented size.
and A.M. Keith and Alli Macks initials, intertwined.
And she hasnt just implicated herself.
So in the summer of 2017, after Sarahs husband, Nippy (Nippy!
), drives over to Laurens house and verbally mangles her, she decides to undo what she can.
She hands over the keys to the Vancouver center that was once her pride and joy.
She tells other members, in a filmed exchange, that NXIVM is participating in human trafficking.
As for the scores of people she carrot-and-sticked into joining?
We brought them in, we have to take them out.
