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Podcast: shunned
Episode: Episode 101 - Don't You EVER Embarrass Me
Description: At the age of 11 or 12 Nia saw something happen that many Jehovah's Witnesses see, one of the teenagers in her congregation was disfellowshipped. But what she also experienced was her mother's reaction, a reaction that lacked care or compassion for the person that was now seen as lost, a reaction that lacked any real care for Nia as well. "Don't you EVER embarrass me the way she embarrassed her mother!" And there you have a relationship summed up in one quick remark, a relationship that would leave Nia trying desperately to earn her mother's love, a love...