Before I understood what was happening, before I knew what The Truth would come to mean for my family, there were signs. My mother’s growing defiance. My father’s quiet but relentless insistence. The way a simple question—“Why do the women all have long hair?”—was met not with an answer, but with silence.

This episode is about the slow pull of indoctrination, how belief is not always imposed at once, but planted, reinforced, made inevitable. It’s about the night my father used the Bible to teach me what I was supposed to believe—and the moment I realized that what was written on the page would dictate my life.

A door slams. A child retreats into books, searching for something that makes sense. And a family shifts, irreversibly.

Listen in as I take you back to the moment when the rules began to change.

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