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The wife's tragic backstory every single fucking time

There have to be better ideas!
Gemma and Mark sit in a room, looking at each other with wistful sadness. She's got a great grey coat.
The happy couple, in better times (before one of them was being psychologically tortured by a corporation-cum-cult). (Credit: AppleTV+)

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Emily St. James

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