The G-Word
Paulina says she grew up in an insular Romani community in California, where she was raised to be a wife, mother and fortuneteller — until she decided to break away.
Foretold · Faith Pinho, Asal Ehsanipour, Alex Higgins, Lauren Raab, Avery Trufelman, Heba Elorbany, Jazmin Aguilera, Helen Li, Mike Heflin, Vadim Kolpakov, Alex PGSV
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Show Notes
In the fall of 2019, reporter Faith E. Pinho received a tip from Paulina Stevens. Paulina said she had grown up in an insular Romani community in California, where she was raised to be a wife, mother and fortuneteller — until she decided to break away. This opens the door to a story spanning multiple continents, hundreds of years and complex, even metaphysical, realities.
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