I came for the stipend and stayed for the way my lungs felt like new songs. If this is a cult, it has better snacks and a very persuasive treadmill.
They make you sign in with your legal name but call you “Stardust” like they’ve already seen your baby photos from the future. Two hours, they said. Diagnostics, agility, “spiritual neutrality.” I don’t know what that last one means, but the evaluator smiled like a therapist who does deadlifts. I jogged, I breathed, I cried—quiet, weird, good...
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