Wow! What a lot of lovely "welcomes" - sorry I've been so long in replying - I'm a dumbo on the computer as yet and had to talk to a friend for an hour on the phone before I got back in! Getting senile - I don't think! Isn't life just fantastic now we're OUT? Everyone (you know, the "worldly ones") said I was acting like a teenager but I never was allowed to be one! Life - yes, LIFE - is fantastic - once I'd gotten over the bitterness and anger. I remember my first real laugh just after I got out - something someone said and I got such a stitch in my side I thought it was appendicitis - I'd never had a "belly" laugh in my life and had to waiy until I was 57! My son (43) still a fervent JW and shunning me - daughter disfellowshipped and consulting psychics. Parents were JW's and cut me out of their lives and estate = half brother PO in his Midlands cong. Also shunning. Past caring - honestly - its just great to be able to have a voice, to laugh, to help neighbours - to be NORMAL. Gate crashed the "Memorial" three years ago in distant cong and partook of "emblems" - they didn't know me but the reaction was menacing - I wanted to show up this farce for what it is. I'm 65 now and look back often on the abuse in the WT - odd, you don't realise God never comes into it until you get out! As long as the elders don't find out ................got to go. Love to everyone. Annalesia
