EXCLUSIVE My mother sacrificed my twin sister on the altar of her ideology. This is the horrifying reality of growing up with a malicious narcissist who thought she was Jesus - and banned us from wearing suncream and drinking tap water
'I've always been told I was like her in male form,' smiles Gabriel, 24. 'She was pretty, obviously, but she was also a bit of a nerd.'
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