For a few seconds after my mother said she could not congratulate me for “defying God’s will,” no one moved.

year. Not because of one dramatic courtroom scene, but because records did what tears could not. Families came forward. Women testified. Financial documents showed misuse of funds. The group splintered. Some members apologized. Some doubled down. That is life. Truth opens doors, but people still choose whether to walk through them.

My mother did.

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