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\\u201cWe were invisible. We had to be. We took an oath of absolute secrecy. We never even told our immediate families who we were. We went about our lives in New York City. Just like you. We were your accountants, money managers, lawyers, executive recruiters, doctors. We owned your child\\u2019s private school and sold you your brownstone. But you\\u2019d never guess our secret lives, how we lived in a kind of silent terror and fervor. There were hundreds of us.\\u201d

That\\u2019s a snippet from Spencer Schneider\\u2019s compelling and creepy AF memoir: Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival. This isn\\u2019t an ad, it\\u2019s just the truth: We think you\\u2019re going to want to grab yourself a copy before you hit the beach this summer. It\\u2019s that much of a page turner. In this episode of A Little Bit Culty, Spencer joins us to share more about what it was like living inside the nightmarish bubble of \\u2018School\\u2019, the ultra-secret Manhattan organization that consumed his life for 23 years. And just in case you\\u2019ve not heard of \\u2018School\\u2019, this particular culty shitshow gives us Eyes Wide Shut vibes with sprinklings of Eloise if she lived at The Plaza in the Upside Down. For extra credit, read up on the late Sharon Gans, the eccentric School leader whose cult resume lowlights include: forced adoptions, arranged marriages, twisted displays of public humiliation and conspicuous consumption, and forced labor. Glad you got the hell out of there, Spencer.\\xa0\\xa0

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