Boy do I! I was there. After I moved from my jw foster home and was released from states custody, I moved 200 miles away to be with family. My biological sister and I were able to move in with a jw family who didn't ever ask for anything monitarily,(other jw sister and bil were not helpful) but I helped out where I could cuz at that time min wage was about 3.25 per hour. Still I was ALWAYS BROKE!(I worked for my RICH jw BIL who was married to another sister of mine) I was woke up quite a bit(at the jw home I was staying at) to watch scary HBO movies(friday the 13th etc)..not something jw's should be watching til 3 am, but I endured. Granted, Tuesday night book studies were still done in homes, Their Home! I always thought I was REALLY bad with money, but late one night I was startled and rose out of bed. It was the jw wife of where we(my sister and I) were living and she said she was putting my brush back in my purse. No big deal I went back to sleep. Next morning I arose for work knowing I had ten dollars in my purse......it was gone! I had to get gas, had NO $! I went to work on fumes that day, I could not and would not accuse a jw of theft, but lets face it I had no money her kids 5 years and under I could not and would not accuse! It was a few days later that I moved out, but here is where this story ties in with the op. Weeks after the move I loved to flea market and bought 2 beautiful oriental plaster statues. That was pretty much the only decorations in my 1 bd apartment at age 18 had and 40$ was a HUGE amount of money, but I liked them. Life goes on, I am independent, things are great. I came home one day from work to find this jw person crashing my oriental statues(they were inside my home) with a huge sledgehammer! Saying they were DEMONIZED! Yep! today I could prosecute them for damaging my property, in the 80s I just let it go. Yep I watched hbo while they were stealing me blind and distroying my property! Ya live and learn! Right? This same person tried to facebook me less than 1 month ago............I always decline that offer! lol
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here is my grandson who will be one in a few days!