I hardly slept all night. The next day, I was starting my first real summer job – a salesgirl at McKenzies department store. I’d just turned 15. I begged my parents to let me interview for this job. It was a big deal. In New Zealand, especially in the rural areas, Exclusive Brethren girls were…
I grew up in New Zealand. I was born and raised in the village of Ashhurst, in the Manawatu district. Ashhurst is 14 kilometres from Palmerston North and about 150 kilometres north of Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city. I was brought up Exclusive Brethren, originally called Plymouth Brethren. This is a fundamentalist, Christian group that uses…