Creating a long table with large cells that wrap effectively

Question

I want to create a table and place a large amount of text into a particular cell.
It needs to be possible to wrap the contents of that cell over multiple pages.
I found example code (Horizontal longtable is not splitting over multiple pages) that uses the xltabular package, however the cell contents overflow the hbox and only part of the text is displayed.
Would really appreciate some feedback on how to resolve this.
Thanks

documentclass{article}
usepackage{pdflscape}
usepackage{booktabs, xltabular}
usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}

begin{document}
begin{landscape}
setlengthextrarowheight{3pt}
setlength{tabcolsep}{3pt}
footnotesize
begin{xltabular}{linewidth}{@{} *{12}{X} @{}}
    caption{On the first page}
label{tab:my-table}    
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endfirsthead
%
caption[]{continued from previous page}    
endhead
% table body
rowcolor[HTML]{D9D9D9}
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end{xltabular}
end{landscape}

end{document}

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