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CHAPTER 7: From Delilah's to Peninah's - Shelter of More Harm

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Chapter 7 - Shelter of More Harm: From Delilah to Peninah                 Part I of II parts   This particular Chapter was admittedly a long time coming. I would like to tell you that it’s because “life got in the way” and that’s true.  But the real reason is simply because I still hold a low-key level of exasperation with Peninah, the antagonist of this chapter.  And I always want to be fair in my portrayal of events that happened to me during the American Pandemic - in spite of how brutally UNFAIR some awful people were to me. So, I worried that I would write this chapter laced with that undercurrent of exasperation instead of some basic human understanding - which I do try to extend to most people.   But Peninah vexes me still because she was a “Christian fraud” from the outset.  I mean, I give Delilah (see previous chapter herein) credit: for at least in her moments of rare, raw authenticity she ADMITS that she is a monster and has profited from doing monstrous things her whole lif