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Introducing: Call Bethel

Bed of Lies

CHAPTER

The Importance of Spiritual Guidance

There was a man in the congregation who started to give Chavon and Darya spiritual guidance. Peter Stewart led most of Darya's religious study, so he quickly became a fixture. He had emphysema, he had a brown inhaler and witch, I still hate them inhalers. So my mum was regarded as a spiritual widow. Those are the ways of phrasing it. Like you'd be spiritually single. But it was this whole thing of if your husband isn't a Jehovah's Witness, then you have no spiritual head of your family. And that's obviously seen as a very difficult situation for a woman to be in.

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