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Article: Ex-Jehovah's Witness tells of leaving the Watchtower Society.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- May 22, 2002
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Diane Wilson of Morgan Hill, Calif., spent nearly half her life as a Jehovah's Witness, and her memories are bitter ones. For 25 years, she says, she was taught to not ask questions and eventually to shun her own daughter, who had left the Watchtower Society.
Wilson became involved with the Watchtower, which has about a million members in the United States, in 1968 and was baptized a Witness in 1970. She was 21 and recently divorced, living on the edge in Santa Clara County with a young child.
As she tells it, she was emotionally "vulnerable" and soon found herself in a rigid religious organization that expected _ and got _ complete obedience from its ...