Long, daunting path
I began to study with Jehovah's Witnesses when I was only seven years old and finally became devout when I was 18. Immediately following my baptism, I became a Pioneer.
The maternal side of my family was deeply involved, but my father and his family never became a part of Jehovah's Witnesses, for which I am very grateful. I resigned from the JWs by sending a nine-page letter of disassociation to the elders in 1990 when I was 27.