The Family Forest
Epigenetics and psychogenealogy through a VERY personal experience.
Drinking a Monster in the parking lot of the clinic where I was born that is now a funeral home
A woman returns to the site of her birth, which is now a funeral home. She drinks a white monster energy drink.
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