The thought was electrifying. Someone could just make you commit murder? How? It was on at one in the morning, so we had a sleepover at my house and watched it. I don’t remember much about it, but there was definitely an interview with a former cult leader who was known for recruiting teenage girls. The interviewer asked him how he had recruited his followers. Simple, he said. He just approached groups of girls at shopping malls, singled one out, and told her that she had beautiful eyes. “If she said thank you or even just laughed, I moved on,” he said. “But if she tried to deflect the
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