@joy,

Dear GOD you live in Brooklyn?! Jesus H. I'd be in the paddy wagon if I lived there.....egging HQ for days I tell ya!!! Woosah indeed.

Yeah as soon as my mediocre job could afford me the chance to get out of dodge I did exactly that. Packed up my junk with my better half and hit it. Now I'm 3 hours away from the only 2 in my entire family that are witnesses and live a lot closer to family that think it's a cult.

Just to throw this out there: How hard was it for you guys to reconnect with family on the "outside"? It's difficult for me because I still struggle with being loyal to my baptized grandparents but also want to get to know other family that I've been cut off from for the last 2+ decades...

"Thought is suspect, 
And money is their idol, 
And nothing is okay unless it's scripted in their Bible." -Spring Awakening--2006