Hiding under the bed at age ten as the SWAT team raided the cult I called home, I was suddenly born; shocked into a new reality, a world of violence. Until I was ten, Id thought that my alias was my own name; that the things Id known since I was five years old were irrevocably true. Once, I lived in a society where everyone had an alias. I had another identity. I had another life. From my youth, I knew myself as Leah Israel, a name given me in the cult called The Nation of Yahweh. Surprisingly, those who left The Nation were said to be dead. It would be years later before I knew how true that actually was?Ǫ