If you read my book "New Boy" I talked about a girl I met in 1972 at a convention in Allentown PA. I fell in love with her at first sight.
However a problem came up a couple of months later, when I met and fell in love with my future wife, Debbie.
Both women's mothers didn't like me at all (go figure) and it was literally a coin toss between the two women.
I choose Debbie. Well if you read the book you know where that road went for almost 40 years.
Fast forward, the Pennsylvania woman Gayle tracked me down in 2010. She hadn't forgot about me. She told me she was very surprised and disappointed in me for leaving the tooth.
She was so crushed after I dumped her, she married the first guy to come along and got married to a self righteous elder. She said, she knew it was a mistake as they were walking down the aisle! She had 4 daughters with him. However, he was an abusive piece of shit and she had an affair with a "worldly man" and finally got the affection she needed. However she got pregnant with this this new guy.
What a mess. She of course got Dfed and crawled back to her JW husband and Jehover. However the abuse was now worse than ever. She couldn't handle it anymore and left her husband and married the worldly guy. But because of her guilt of being a "bad" mother and the situation, the Witness husband got custody of all 5 children even the one that wasn't his!
After a couple of years of legal battles she finally got her baby back but the other 4 girls were stuck with their father....
After many years of shame and wearing "the Scarlet letter" in the back of the kingdom hall she was finally let back into the fold. However, the "brothers" never really forget do they. She is invited to very few "Witness" functions.
When she contacted me, she was still a believer, anyway she is the only Jehovah's Witness that didn't shunn me and we have been good friends and have been talking to each other these last 10 years.
Well, my book came out on April 19, 2019 and of course she got one of the first copies and read the whole thing in just 2 days!
She didn't know about the whole JWs and the United Nations thing and of course all the other bull shit that when on at the headquarters. I sent her Ray's Book too and that was the final straw.
She has started her fade now after 60 years a Watchtower slave.... However, this can be difficult as all know. She still has a couple of her daughters are still "in" along with grandchildren.
Good Job Gayle.....
No matter how long you have been in "The Borg" you too can escape!