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"I just want to get on with my life" after Scientology

Title: "I just want to get on with my life" after Scientology
Date: Sunday, 1 November 2009
Publisher: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Authors: Joe Childs, Thomas C. Tobin
Main source: tampabay.com

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Sixteen years later, Betsy Perkins is sobbing as she talks about the day she ran away from Scientology. "I thought I was handing in my ticket to eternity," she says. Now 56, a graphic artist in Dallas, she says she is going public to offer her own "first-hand account of what happened to a person who was in there." She spent 17 years in Scientology's work force, the Sea Org, moved by the church's mantra that Scientologists held the future of ... [Read the rest at tampabay.com]