Betrayed! — Wayne A. Sturgeon — (2009) — [Oahspe-Spiritualism-Mysticism –Anti-Religion-Anti-Cultism

FORWARD My family history is probably the best way to start you through this book.

Religion has been the basis of so many family decisions that have affected my life even before I was born. Mom and dad came together and there was an older brother waiting for me. My mother came from a staunch Catholic family, and my father came from a Wesleyan Methodist family. Due to these rigid beliefs, there must have been an extreme burden for the parents of my mom and dad. As young as I was at the time, I felt the feelings of hatred that were “boiling” close to the surface. The following was told to me many years later that there had been a letter that was sent from one grandmother to the other. Now the chemistry of love was far superior to the doctrine of religion and my mother became pregnant with my older brother. The details are a bit sketchy for me but I know that my mom had to go away to have the baby, as it would have been a disgrace to become pregnant in those days without a proper marriage. Through some arrangement made back in those days my older brother spent about six years of his childhood with my grandparents on dad’s side. My earliest memories were without my older brother, but he became known to me when I was about four years old. We moved into another house and my brother just seemed to appear on the scene. He was my friend for the next ten or twelve years.

He was killed in a car accident about1954. This was the point of no return for my mother. She became so guilt ridden that she never recovered from his death.

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