Steve Buitron
ASIN: B00Q3BNLHO
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 158
An inspiring and deeply personal memoir of the author's life focusing on his lonely childhood, struggle with personal identity and challenges growing up as one of Jehovah's Witnesses. A domineering mother ran the household and the author lived under the strict rules of his parent's faith which included five church meetings a week, no holiday celebrations, corporal punishment and a virtual complete lack of concern with secular education. Dropping out of high school after his freshman year the author recounts his painful and confusing struggle for personal identity, family tragedies and the challenges he eventually overcame to achieve professional and educational fulfillment. Living in what his parents taught him was a demon haunted world very near total destruction was quite a challenge for a small, lonely boy. Jehovah's Witnesses taught that the battle of Armageddon would come in 1975 ...