I'm more fortunate than most of the people who are released from prison. I lost my small but very lucrative business. But before it went under I manag...d to sell it to an aircraft manufacturer for a very large sum of money because they wanted a couple of the patents I owned. I managed to sell most of what I owned before it was stolen or destroyed. I lost money because of the circumstances. But I didn't lose everything.When I walked out of prison I was unemployed and probably unemployable. But I. The first thing we noticed was that none of the Bedouin women made any sort of appearance. At first, there were plenty men and boys - and girls - about, but the youngsters soon disappeared when the sun went down, and we sat down to dinner with eight Bedouin men - none aged under 40, I would guess, and a couple who were quite old. They were dressed in robes, with these things on their heads - not quite tea towels, but you know what I mean!When I say we 'sat down to dinner', we did, literally,. Women were seen as chattels in many ways. They could not even regulate their own bodies. The church would see sixteen children as sixteen new converts and not see the suffering that the parents had to go through to raise them. They also did not see that fewer children could be raised with more attention and resources put at their disposal. I guess sixteen poor, illiterate farmers who died young were better than two college educated people who would lead the country or the world.A year earlier,. Betty stomped her heels furiously, making a sound as loud as the slam of the door closing shut, which caused her to scratch her pristine hardwood floors to make her even more upset. She was fuming as she made her way to the front door as fast as possible. Prepared to scream her lungs out, Betty caught herself when she noticed there were people outside her shared community living property. She spied her husband halfway to his car as he stopped to talk to a repairman. It was the same hulking.