Quote of the Day

That day, I'd given my mother a smartphone.  At first she said no -- as a [Scientology] Sea Org member, she was forbidden to have her own phone -- but she finally accepted it.  She kept the phone hidden, but every chance she got she used it to search the Internet for information about the things I'd been telling her.  Reading the claims of ex-communicants about vendettas by the church, she recognized a pattern.  Their stories were chillingly similar to what was happening to me.

-- Michelle LeClair, Perfectly Clear, p. 256