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Apr 24, 2020

Aella says "as you know", but I've noticed that a lot of the people who get mad at her when her polls go viral obviously don't know her backstory. Her backstory is actually fucking fascinating and almost perfectly positions her to be a social/cultural investigator

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@Aella_Girl

Apr 24, 2020

(as you know) I was raised in a borderline cult environment with professionally evangelist parents, homeschooled, limited access to media, taught 6k y/o earth, explicitly expected to be a housewife who homeschooled her own children in the ways of the Lord. 1/

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Eg when Aella asks questions like "why is bestiality bad" – people say things like "wtf?!?! that's obviously a fucking bad-faith question, bestiality is OBVIOUSLY bad" – but you have to see that she grew up in an environment where that would've been true re: homosexuality

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Has she written about her story somewhere? I follow

@Aella_Girl

because she asks interesting questions, but I know nothing about her otherwise.

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I'm planning on writing and publishing a memoir. I don't know if I can do it but I'm hoping it'll happen once my return to sex work settles down.

6:42 PM · Apr 24, 2020

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I will definitely do my part to help promote that memoir – even if we weren't friends, I would feel compelled to do it as an act of public service

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awww thank you. I feel like my life is very slowly rolling me into writing this. It's really hard because writing large-scale personal things is hard but even little tweets like this I think actively increase the chance that I will do it.

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book about her experience was fantastic. I'm going to search for podcasts you may have done to learn more. Appearance on

@joerogan

podcast would be 👌🏻👌🏻

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oh yeah you should definitely go on joe rogan, ideally once the memoir is out

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Just saw the other thread about your life story, and couldn’t help thinking “this deserves a memoir!” 😃 There is a general paucity of people unwilling to settle into pre-drawn lines, while integrating perspectives, so it feels fun (and wholesome) to see *you be you*