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From I Grew Up In A Fundamentalist Cult — ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Was My Reality by haettinger
The story of The Handmaid’s Tale is a fairly simple dystopian one: A young woman is re-educated by the new totalitarian (and Christian) government regime to be a childbearing surrogate for the wife of a high-ranking military official. She tells her story after the fact, a narrative recorded on audio tapes found years later in someone…